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From: tim@cmu-cs-k.ARPA (Tim Maroney)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: Multiple Files and Standard File Package
Message-ID: <518@cmu-cs-k.ARPA>
Date: Tue, 3-Sep-85 14:25:52 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep  3 14:25:52 1985
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Thanks to the many people who responded by mail and on the network to my
query concerning the best way to support multiple file selection.  The
consensus, with which I now agree, is that the Font/DA Mover's approach is
the best.  For those of you who, like me, have not used this tool, it has a
window (actually a UserItem) like the standard file package's window onto
the files available, with the scroll bar (another UserItem) to the right.
In the Font/DA Mover, the window shows the fonts or desk accessories, not
the files.  Multiple fonts or desk accessories can be selected by dragging
within the window, and by shift-clicking to extend the selection.  I have
some questions as to how many of the naive users the Mac is aimed for know
about shift-clicking -- I do, but I read the programmer's documentation,
so.... -- but this definitely seems superior to accumulating selected files
into a separate window like the MegaMax C linker does.

So that is one-half the question solved.  The second part is implementation,
and no one gave me help with this.  I believe the Font/DA Mover probably
used a modified version of the code for the UserItems from the Standard File
Package, but the sources are not available outside Apple, so that's no help
to me.  I do not want to (more importantly, my supervisor would not want me
to) spend a whole week implementing a minor feature of TFTP, and the issue
doesn't intrigue me enough to do it as a hobby project.  Any suggestions on
the implementation would be greatly appreciated.  I agree that Apple should
extend the Standard File Package to support multiple selection, but that
does me little good in the here and now.
-=-
Tim Maroney, Carnegie-Mellon University, Networking
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