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From: nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell)
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Subject: Re: Scrap Management, User Preferences
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Date: 27 Apr 89 11:19:11 GMT
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In article <28905@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> oster@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu.UUCP (David Phillip Oster) writes:
>If you externalize your scrap, and use the scrap manager, even if it is a
>private type, the user can save scraps on the scrapbook. That can be very
>convenient for the user.  By rights, you should put a dual representation
>on the scrapbook: a TEXT, say,  and your private type. That way the user
>can see some difference between two scraps from your program.

I also got this suggestion from Dave Platt. I love it! So, I can
invent a small PICT or something which essentially "iconises" the
scrap. Nice. Do other applications do things this way? (I'll have to
give it a try with Performer...)

>A file, either data or resoruce, that you find using poor-man's-search-path,

I presume you mean a hard-wired path like "::System Folder:Config" or
something...

>... Or, you can encourage users
>to double click on "Stationery" files.  This solution is better, since it
>allows the user the effect of multiple preferences files (say two people
>share one mac.)

Again, a nice idea...
Many thanks to those who've replied.

>--- David Phillip Oster

		Nick.
Nick Rothwell,	Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science, Edinburgh.
		nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk    <Atlantic Ocean>!mcvax!ukc!lfcs!nick
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