Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!dali.cs.montana.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!udel!haven.umd.edu!mimsy!dftsrv!heawk1!hoepfner From: hoepfner@heawk1.gsfc.nasa.gov (Patrick Hoepfner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: System 7.0 A few impressions Message-ID: Date: 21 May 91 17:15:49 GMT References: <2333@cs.rit.edu> <1991May19.164210.29439@gn.ecn.purdue.edu> Sender: news@dftsrv.gsfc.nasa.gov Organization: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Lines: 35 jess@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Jess M Holle) writes: >In article <2333@cs.rit.edu> jxj2606@cs.rit.edu (Jehangir X Jungalwala) writes: >> * No more Macros, when I called Apple about how to set up Fkeys and >> things like that, she told me that Apple stopped releasing >> macromaker and that it is not compatible with System 7.0. >> So if you are a macro man time to buy Quick Keys. Which >> really, I feel, is not the right thing to do. If my >> extended keyboard hey the F1-F12 keys, Apple should support >> their functionability, and not cop-out and depend on >> third-party vendors. >I agree that Apple should have kept supplying a Macro program of some sort, >however, MacroMaker caused me so many crashes that its minor functionality >was of NO overall use (actually, one could say it was of negative use). I personally hope that when Apple releases a scripting language that will support all these things. Of course, if you have an application that uses those keys (Terminal Emulators, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, etc...) then those keys don't go unused. Personally I use QuicKeys and I would be considerably more upset with its loss. I believe that MacroMaker, HD Backup, and some of the other Apple supplied utilities fit into that nebulous catagory of concepts that Apple wanted people to get used to but that they didn't want to drive any vendors out of the market. I think that Apple's role isn't to provide for everything, but to provide the enabling technology so that the other vendors can quickly and easily provide us with better and better applications. As always, Just my thoughts... -- Pat ------------------------------------> hoepfner@heasfs.gsfc.nasa.gov