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From: jmunkki@santra.UUCP (Juri Munkki)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: User interface inconsistency with MultiFinder
Message-ID: <11326@santra.UUCP>
Date: 23 Mar 88 20:46:58 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
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Keywords: MultiFinder, SFGetFile, Open

If you have an application open and you want to open a new file with it,
you can't use the finder to select the file without quitting the application
first. The way I think this should happen is to make the Finder tell the
application that the user would like to open a file. All it would require
would be a new bit in the SIZE resource (Support Easy Open Bit) and a new
modifier to the suspend/resume event.

The next step would be to add a "let me open with the finder" button to the
standard file package. Available files could be hilighted in some way until
the user chooses a file. (I think this idea still needs some work to be
really modeless and intuitive, but there should be a way of doing it _right_.)

Juri Munkki
jmunkki@santra.hut.fi
jmunkki@fingate.bitnet

P.S. Did anyone get my hyphenation & spelling checker proposal? I haven't had
     any replies. It's sort of disappointing that such an important matter
     doesn't interest anyone and that when I tell that I'm writing a
     game toolbox, I get a large amount of requests...

     Maybe Mac users aren't interested in real world problems.
     (The above line is only meant to irritate you. Please disregard it.)