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From: gwe@cbdkc1.UUCP ( George Erhart  )
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: Multiple Files and Standard File Package
Message-ID: <1122@cbdkc1.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 28-Aug-85 09:47:49 EDT
Article-I.D.: cbdkc1.1122
Posted: Wed Aug 28 09:47:49 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 30-Aug-85 20:20:14 EDT
References: <514@cmu-cs-k.ARPA>
Reply-To: gwe@dkc1.UUCP ( George Erhart  )
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus
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In article <514@cmu-cs-k.ARPA> tim@cmu-cs-k.ARPA (Tim Maroney) writes:
>Standard File Package could be implemented.  Additional dialog items can be
>added to the get file dialog with relative ease, so this would seem like the
>best way to go.  One way to do this would be to have two radio buttons at
>the bottom, one marked "Last File" and one marked "Continue".  The initial
>setting would be "Last File"; if the user clicked "Continue", then after
>selecting a file, the dialog would come up again to get another file,
>repeating until "Last File" was set.

The Da/Font movers (Apple & PD) have this feature implemented. They allow you
to command click (clover key + mouse button) to accumulate file selections. 
This is also implemented for the decktop selection of icons. I, too, vote
for some form of multiple selection in the Standard File Package. I don't
think that radio buttons would be very convenient, I prefer the route
taken by the Da/Font movers.

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George Erhart at AT&T Bell Laboratories Columbus, Ohio 
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