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From: earleh@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Earle R. Horton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Checking for MF (was Re: Need some MF help)
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Date: 7 Apr 89 20:59:42 GMT
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In article <1558@husc6.harvard.edu> siegel@endor.UUCP (Rich Siegel) writes:
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>	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... :-) ]
>
     The Finder has no business drawing on the DeskTop.  The Finder
authors are simply going to have to learn to draw things in their own
layer, like everyone else.  I say that leaving room for the Finder's
icons is questionable programming, and you will probably uncover only
the column of disk icons on the right, anyway.  Many people like to
have lots and lots of document, folder, and application icons out when
working with the Finder, so you have no hope of knowing there the
Finder icons are, really.

     DON'T USE THIS TECHNIQUE.  IT PREVENTS USERS FROM SEEING THAT THE
FINDER NEEDS TO FIND SOME OTHER PLACE TO PUT THIS STUFF.

Earle