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From: nerm@Apple.COM (Dean Yu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: System Extension Ideas...
Message-ID: <53344@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 26 May 91 00:28:19 GMT
References: <29835@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA
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In article <29835@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt0831c@prism.gatech.EDU (William Moss) writes:
>For the creative programmer,
>Here are 2 ideas for system extensions under system 7.
>
>An Icon Editor/Database which is easilly accessible from the Finder.
>Perfect for the many mac users with limited artistic ability who want
>to customize their finder icons.

  Actually, we had a package called BitEdit which let you do just this.  We
yanked it before a9 because it took up somewhere around 24K of memory...

>
>A "New File" Option for the Finder. Pull down the file menu, and the mac
>presents you with a scrolling list of all of the applications on the mounted
>volumes.  After selecting an application, and typing a filename, the app
>launches and creates a new blank document already named whatever you named
>it.
>

  In System 7, we introduced the concept of "stationery".  If you have an
application that's stationery-aware, you can double-click on a stationery icon
from the Finder.  You will then be prompted for a name for a new document based
on that stationery, then the application will launch.

  -- Dean Yu
     Blue Meanie, Negative Ethnic Role Model, etc.
     Apple Computer, Inc.
     blah blah blah blah...