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From: jas@ISI.EDU (Jeff Sullivan)
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Subject: Re: ~FinderToFront (posting for someone else)
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Date: 18 Jun 91 17:01:30 GMT
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In-reply-to: bitting-douglas@cs.yale.edu's message of 18 Jun 91 07:02:03 GMT

In article <1991Jun18.070203.10885@cs.yale.edu> bitting-douglas@cs.yale.edu (Douglas Bitting) writes:

>In article <1991Jun17.150252.1954@cs.yale.edu>, bitting-douglas@cs.yale.edu (Douglas Bitting) writes:
>> 
>> In article <1991Jun17.124955.6093@cs.utk.edu> danny@utkux1.utk.edu (Danny McCampbell) writes:
>> >Has anybody retrieved the Startup Application Finder to Front yet?
>> >If so, what are your comments?  The reason I ask is because I have two
>> >aliases in the Startup Items Folder along with FTF and no matter how I 
>> >order them with the !, #, ~ characters Finder to Front always launches 
>> >second.  Any ideas or was aliases overlooked when writing the program?
>> >Thanks.
>> 
>> The problem, as far as I can tell, is that aliases launch after apps.  So, if
>> ~FinderToFront is an app in your startup items folder, it will not launch last
>> unless all the items in your startup folder are apps.  So, simply make the
>> ~FinderToFront in your startup iems folder an alias to it somewhere else.  This
>> should make it launch last and do its job correctly.
>> 
>> >Danny 
>> 
>> --Doug
>
>I can vouch for Danny's problem.  Regardless of how I name FTF, no matter what
>combination of aliases and apps, FTF refuses to launch last.  Putting all
>aliases in my startup items folder changes the order, but they still don't
>launch in alphabetical order.  Does anybody have a solution for this?
>
>Incidentally, I think the fact that one of the aliases is to a DA (namely
>the alarm clock) may be the problem because the alarm clock always seems to
>go last -- however, you wouldn't think this would matter if it's an alias to
>the DA.
>
>Steve
>

Strangely, I have no problem with FTF.  I have an application and an
alias in my startup folder, along with FTF.  It runs last, when named
the default "~Fin..."

I wonder why.

jas
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