Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!ut-sally!ut-emx!bill
From: bill@ut-emx.UUCP (Bill Jefferys)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Multifinder woes. DA's
Message-ID: <411@ut-emx.UUCP>
Date: 2 Jan 88 16:45:27 GMT
References: <7965@j.ms.uky.edu>
Reply-To: bill@emx.UUCP (William H. Jefferys)
Organization: UTexas Computation Center, Austin, Texas
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In article <7965@j.ms.uky.edu> steve@ms.uky.edu (Steve Ferry) writes:
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~   I just bought a copy of Multifinder from my local dealer 
~and I'm upset by the way it handles DA's. I use a Datadesk 
~101 keyboard with  my MacPlus. If I understand correctly, 
~I can no longer use the function keys because the 101-KEYS DA
~is in a separate layer from the programs.

As I learned when I had this problem, holding down the option
key when selecting the DA brings it up in the usual way.

More importantly, this behavior seems to me to be a failure of
systems design on the part of Apple. In general, MF ought to
behave in ways that are parallel to the way things work under the
old finder. Thus, it should have been set up to bring up the
DA in the ordinary way when it is selected in the ordinary
way, and to bring it up in a second partition (under the DA
handler) ONLY when the option key is held down. This would 
be much less confusing and would be easier on those of us who,
for one reason or another, must switch between a MF and a non-MF
environment.

Apple, are you listening?

Bill Jefferys