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From: jackiw@cs.swarthmore.edu (Nick Jackiw)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Multi-Finder Trash?
Message-ID: <2355@ilium.cs.swarthmore.edu>
Date: 26 Jan 89 02:17:36 GMT
References: <353woodl@byuvax.bitnet>
Reply-To: jackiw@ilium.UUCP (Nick Jackiw)
Organization: Visual Geometry Project, Swarthmore College, PA
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In article <353woodl@byuvax.bitnet> woodl@byuvax.bitnet writes:
> 
>      I have just begun to use multi-finder.  One rather annoying probelm I've
> run across is that when I come back to the finder with full screen applications
> open (e.g., Word), the trash doesn't come to the front with the open windows.
> Is there something I'm missing or is this a feature?
> Thanks, Larry Wood, WoodL@BYUVAX

That's not a bug, that's a feature!  Or vice-versus, take your pick. 

MultiFinder only knows what portions of the screen a program owns by the
windows that program declares as its own.  Since MultiFinder arrived,
Apple has been expressly recommended that no program write to the screen
unless its in a window (unlike Finder's icons).  I sure hope this is up
for change in the next major Finder revision.

In the meantime, if you don't want to resize each of the windows in every
non-Finder layer blocking your trash can, the best you can currently do (I
think) is keep the trash's WINDOW open, and the (main) window for each 
mounted disk.  This rapidly can rapidly fill your screen with relatively
unused windows, though.

Along these lines: has anyone hacked Gregg Mariott's window-blasting
FKEY (from an old MacTutor) to work successfully with MultiFinder? That
would be an ideal solution to getting to that trash can.


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