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From: cep@apple.com (Christopher Pettus)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Checking for MF (was Re: Need some MF help)
Message-ID: <1237@internal.Apple.COM>
Date: 7 Apr 89 00:03:51 GMT
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Organization: Network Systems, Apple Computer, Inc.
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References:<1200@internal.Apple.COM> <2755@pegasus.ATT.COM>

In article <2755@pegasus.ATT.COM> ech@pegasus.ATT.COM (Edward C Horvath) 
writes:
> From article <1200@internal.Apple.COM>, by cep@apple.com (Christopher 
Pettus):
> > ...interface guidelines strongly advise against messing with the size 
or 
> > position of user-defined windows except under user control...
> Exactly.  Now if the behavior is one the user WANTS, I ought to be able 
to
> deliver, right?

Well, not exactly.  You wish to cause automatic behavior, without user 
intervention, which you presume that the user wants.  The user interface 
guidelines say that if the user wants the windows to be in a certain 
place, s/he will put them there, so don't do it yourself.

-- Christopher Pettus, cep@apple.com