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From: jyp@wucs1.wustl.edu (Jerome Yvon Plun)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Bringing Finder frontmost after Startup Items run
Message-ID: <1991Jun5.140541.17537@cec1.wustl.edu>
Date: 5 Jun 91 14:05:41 GMT
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In article <18154@venera.isi.edu> jas@ISI.EDU (Jeff Sullivan) writes:
>In article <1991Jun4.155851.23146@mmm.serc.3m.com> pejacoby@mmm.serc.3m.com (Paul E. Jacoby) writes:
>
>>In article <0B01FFFB.gwbpcl@outpost.UUCP> peirce@outpost.UUCP (Michael Peirce) writes:
>>>
>>>In article <1991May30.142809.10293@umiami.ir.miami.edu>, dweisman@umiami.ir.miami.edu (Ordinary Man) writes:
>>>> 	There's a real cheap way to get the finder to the front without any 
>>>> inits or other apps running. Just put an alias to your hard drive in the 
>>>
>>>Sounds like a better way than a special app.  So maybe I won't post
>>>my little hack (harumph, my first System 7 specific App is worthless :-)
>>>-- michael
>
>Right.
>
>>And Michael, why don't you release your hack anyway?  We can ALWAYS use
>>more neato utilities for 7.0!
>>-- 
>
>Why in hell would you want to promote the spread of hacks into the
>system when you can already do what the hack does?  Just spreads
>possible incompatibilities.
>
>jas

Don't be confused by the term 'hack'.  We were talking about an _APPLICATION_
that would do the trick (namely bring back the Finder to the front after all
the other start-up items), not some extension or fiddling in the Finder with
ResEdit.  

I am really interested in getting this little application because it's the
cleanest way of bringing the Finder to the front.  I don't want to have my hard
drive root window opened every time I boot my machine.

Back to the hacking business, using applications instead of any other trick is
the best way to add some features to the system (cf Applicon, DarkSide instead 
of Pyro or AfterDark, Alarm Clock instead of SuperClock...).  Not only can 
an application be checked more easily than some trap patching extension but
you can quit any application while you have to reboot to turn off an 
extension (at least most of them).

Jerome 

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