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From: siegel@endor.harvard.edu (Rich Siegel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Checking for MF (was Re: Need some MF help)
Message-ID: <1558@husc6.harvard.edu>
Date: 6 Apr 89 02:27:14 GMT
References: <1179@internal.Apple.COM> <2749@pegasus.ATT.COM> <1200@internal.Apple.COM>
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Reply-To: siegel@endor.UUCP (Rich Siegel)
Organization: Symantec/THINK Technologies, Bedford, MA
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In article <1200@internal.Apple.COM> cep@apple.com (Christopher Pettus) writes:
>In article <2749@pegasus.ATT.COM> ech@pegasus.ATT.COM (Edward C Horvath) 
>writes:
>> I have an application that tries to be a good citizen by shrinking 
>windows
>> when it's not the foreground app.
>
>While for some applications this might make sense, remember that the 
>interface guidelines strongly advise against messing with the size or 
>position of user-defined windows except under user control.  For example, 
>if the user had set up a screen neatly so that they could see some info in 
>your application before bringing another forward, they would be rather 
>upset if the windows then moved so as to be invisible.
>
	In any case, this branch of the discussion is made moot by Set Aside.

	One reason for wanting to know about MultiFinder is so that an
application can know to leave room for the Finder's icons along the right-
hand edge of the screen, when zooming windows. For example, More II does 
this. [Well, More II does lots of other bizarre things, but... :-) ]

		--Rich



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 Rich Siegel
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 Symantec Corporation, Language Products Group
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 "She told me to make myself comfortable, so I pulled down my pants
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