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From: levin@bbn.com (Joel B Levin)
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Subject: Re: Checking for MF (was Re: Need some MF help)
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Date: 6 Apr 89 13:58:55 GMT
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In article <1558@husc6.harvard.edu> siegel@endor.UUCP (Rich Siegel) writes:
|	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. . .

Better, and getting back to the real functionality, why not let the
use decide (a) what the zoomed and unzoomed sizes are (kept in the
resource fork) - VersaTerm does this; and (b) what the defaults for
this should be (this is rare, but I think someone does this - maybe
MPW Shell?)?  What if I'm using a finder substitute and I don't want
to waste the space on the right for those icons?

Let the user set these values and their defaults on the basis of needs
or wants; don't presuppose what they should be based on external
circumstances which you might not be able to get right anyhow.

	/JBL
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