Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!udel!princeton!bird!bskendig From: bskendig@bird.Princeton.EDU (Brian Kendig) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: What System 7 Does For You: A summary. Message-ID: <9396@idunno.Princeton.EDU> Date: 10 May 91 20:56:39 GMT References: <9348@idunno.Princeton.EDU> Sender: news@idunno.Princeton.EDU Organization: Starfleet Academy: Princeton University Lines: 53 In article yee@osf.org (Michael K. Yee) writes: >In article <9348@idunno.Princeton.EDU> bskendig@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Brian Kendig) writes: >> ... the ability to move through files in Finder windows by typing >> their names and using the arrow keys and Tab key, > This is a great feature, but it reminds me of the problem in 6.0.x > in which you cannot drag select files if you are using View "as > Name". I know you can Shift-Click on each file you want to select, > but cannot drag select (i.e. drag rectangle to enclose selection in > view "as Icon" or "as Small Icon"). > > Is there a way to EASILY select multiple files when you are viewing > files "as Name"? You can now drag a rubberband-outline around the icons of the files shown in a list view ("View by Name, Size, Kind, Date, Label, Version, or Comments") easily. More Finder niceties: When you try to rubberband past the borders of the window in any view, the window scrolls with you. As you drag the rubberband, the selected files will highlite _as you enclose them_, not just after you release the mouse button. If you try to drag a file near the edge of a window, it will scroll horizontally, vertically, or diagonally to keep up -- no more having to move a file out to the desktop, scroll the window, then put the file back in just to drop it into a folder that was scrolled out of sight originally! Clicking a window's zoom box will resize it to perfectly fit the icons in it. (Under System 6, clicking a window's zoom box would grow the window to fill almost the whole screen.) You can now scroll sideways in a text view. The days of having to stretch a window waaay wide just to check the modification dates of some files are over! You can specify the font and point size for the text the Finder uses (Geneva 9 by default) from the Views control panel. You can also choose to have your icons in straight or staggered rows, tell it exactly what information to display in a list view, and tell it to use either small, medium, or large icons in a list view. I could go on -- but why don't you try it for yourself? ;) << Brian >> | Brian S. Kendig \ Macintosh | Engineering, | bskendig | | Computer Engineering |\ Thought | USS Enterprise | @phoenix.Princeton.EDU | Princeton University |_\ Police | -= NCC-1701-D =- | @PUCC.BITNET | "You gave your life to become the person you are right now. Was it worth it?"