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From: philip@pescadero.Stanford.EDU (Philip Machanick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: System Extension Ideas...
Message-ID: <1991May28.190250.20805@neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 28 May 91 19:02:50 GMT
References: <29835@hydra.gatech.EDU> <53344@apple.Apple.COM> <1991May26.191914.7045@watcgl.waterloo.edu> <5171@dirac.physics.purdue.edu>
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In article <5171@dirac.physics.purdue.edu>, sho@gibbs.physics.purdue.edu (Sho Kuwamoto) writes:
|> In article <1991May26.191914.7045@watcgl.waterloo.edu> pmbergla@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Per Bergland) writes:
|> >Am I right if I say that it is the opposite:
|> >That if an application is NOT stationery-aware, then Finder will make a copy
|> >of the document, prompt for a new name etc, and then launch, while if it IS
|> >stationery-aware Finder expects the application to take care of this itself?
|> >(Just a blurb from what I think I saw in Inside Mac...)
|> 
|> Unfortunately, I *don't* think this is the case.
|> 
|>    "If your application does not support stationery, the Standard File
|>     Package displays an alert box warning the user that the stationery
|>     pad itself, not a copy of it, is being openend.  As you can see,
|>     the user can still easily change the template and mistakenly write
|>     over it by choosing Save without assigning a new name."
|> 
You are both right. The first thing happens when you open
from the Finder, the second when you open from the application.
A pity - it would have been nice to have this consistent (as it
will no doubt be in 7-aware applications).
-- 
Philip Machanick
philip@pescadero.stanford.edu