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From: dant@ryptyde.UUCP (Daniel Tracy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: A suggestion for Apple (AppleEvents/Finder).. Please Read (Apple)
Keywords: Finder, AppleEvents, Apple Events
Message-ID: <11@ryptyde.UUCP>
Date: 3 Jun 91 00:28:59 GMT
Article-I.D.: ryptyde.11
References: <1991Jun2.112418.27577@ulowell.ulowell.edu>
Reply-To: dant@ryptyde.UUCP (Daniel Tracy)
Organization: Ryptyde Timesharing
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Responding to the following:

"Many times when in the finder I'll select certain files, wanting to do
something with them (for this example I'll say they were all text files, but
with different creator types that existed on the hard drive currently, and
that the thing I wanted to do with them was to open them in one specific
application they weren't necessarily created in). I usually curse after
realizing that there was no real purpose for selecting them all, if (as in
this example) I specifically wanted them all opened in ONE specific
application..  I then go run the application I should have run in the first
place, and just as I go to open the files, I grit my teeth at the fact that
the files are still selected there in the finder, and wouldn't it be nice if
the application I'm in simply "knew" that, instead of asking me to pick them
one at a time, in a standard file dialog. (I don't actually grit my teeth,
it's only a computer, right? :)  , I am just adding that for dramatic effect)."

Couldn't you just select all the files (doing a "Find All" command to get them
all in one folder if necessary), and then drag them over the icon of the 
application you want to open them in? If this doesn't work, it's probably
because the application doesn't support AppleEvents anyways...