Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!oliveb!apple!dwb From: dwb@Apple.COM (David W. Berry) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Is Switcher still alive? Message-ID: <26281@apple.Apple.COM> Date: 23 Feb 89 21:12:14 GMT References: Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA Lines: 27 In article kw1r+@andrew.cmu.edu (Kevin Whitley) writes: >So, switcher is officially dead. That's too bad. It may have had problems but >I actually preferred its interface to the one I get in Multifinder. I liked it >when each application worked in its own screen. In multi-finder I often end up >with a dozen windows open, overlapping all over each other (generally because I >usually keep about 6 windows open in the Finder). Maybe I'm weird but I can't >keep track of all that - as a result I don't use Multifinder. I don't suppose >there's some option I don't know about in Multifinder that would give me a >Switcher style interface? MultiFinder 6.1, which is only available as part of the SADE release from APDA, has a means to do something similar. It has a "Set Aside" option in the Apple menu which will hide the current layer. With the option key down it will hide all other layers. Once that is done, option-click on the application switch icon will cause the next layer to be unset-aside and the current layer to be set aside. > >Kevin Whitley >kw1r@andrew.cmu.edu Opinions: MINE, ALL MINE! (greedy evil chuckle) David W. Berry (A/UX Toolbox Engineer) apple!dwb@sun.com dwb@apple.com 973-5168@408.MaBell