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From: peirce@outpost.UUCP (Michael Peirce)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Bringing Finder frontmost after Startup Items run
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Date: 10 Jun 91 22:19:31 GMT
Reply-To: peirce@outpost.UUCP (Michael Peirce)
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In article <jblue.676559093@mwunix.mitre.org>, jblue@mwunix.mitre.org (Jason D. Blue) writes:
> peirce@outpost.UUCP (Michael Peirce) writes:
> 
> 
> [deleted]
> >OK, why not.  I have a "cleaned up" version of ~FinderToFront that I will be 
> >sending out to comp.sys.mac.binaries & sumex (& America Online) shortly.
> [deleted]
> 
> Now, can someone re-write it or write an init/appl/whatever that enables you to
> hide (as in the Hide XXXX under the application menu) selected startup
> applications?  Alternitevly, how about "Hide Others" once you are in the
> finder?

I've released the source code for FinderToFront into the public domain.  
So anyone is welcome to add some features to it.  It's currently
up on America Online and I'll send it to anyone who wants it.  It's
really a small little program written in MPW Pascal with little if any 
user interface.

I know of one person who's trying to figure out how to hide applications.
He hasn't figured this out yet, but he's still digging.  I'll pass
this trick along if he figures it out and will tell me.

Personally, I don't want to hide others, since the one startup app
I use is a clock :-)   So someone more motivated than me will have
to do it.

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