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From: breidenb@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Oliver Breidenbach)
Subject: User definable objects in Finder 7.0
Message-ID: <1991May2.115300.2662@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE>
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Date: Thu, 2 May 1991 11:53:00 GMT
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hi,

yesterday I discovered a very interessting thing. I have an alias for resedit in
the 7.0 apple menu items folder. I accidentally dragged some file over it just
like you drag something over the trash. The resedit icon went highlited. "Oh"
i thought, "a neat feature, what happens if I 'drop' things into it?"
Guess what, Resedit opened with the given file.
I now wonder if that is a thing available to all applications, or if it is a
special resedit feature. And second, will that enable programmers to establish
things on the desktop that work like the trashcan? (e.g. for mail out boxes?)

just wondering.

Oliver.

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		Oliver Breidenbach, CSD, Technische Universitaet, Muenchen
                      E-Mail: Oliver.Breidenbach@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.de