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From: dce@smsc.sony.com (David Elliott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Multifinder Change
Message-ID: <1989Dec23.022933.2028@smsc.sony.com>
Date: 23 Dec 89 02:29:33 GMT
References: <1989Dec21.195001.17745@deimos.cis.ksu.edu> <14874@shamash.cdc.com>
Reply-To: dce@Sony.COM (David Elliott)
Distribution: usa
Organization: Sony Microsystems Corp.
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In article <14874@shamash.cdc.com> brh@hare.udev.cdc.com (brian r hanson x6009) writes:
>In article <1989Dec21.195001.17745@deimos.cis.ksu.edu> jxf@phobos.cis.ksu.edu (Jerry Frain) writes:
>>I would like to see list of active applications under a menu accessible
>>through the Multifinder icon, rather than below the list of desk accessories.
>
>I have used a version of multifinder which places the list of open applications
>before the desk accessories.  The other enhancement this multifinder had was
>that the last entry of the applications part of the apple menu was 
>  set aside 'application'
>when selected it caused the application to be de-activated and all the windows
>to be removed from the display.  This could be done for all applications 

One word: Chocolate chip cookies!

OK, it's not one word and it doesn't apply here, but it's a good idea.

Anyway, there is a better choice: ApplicationMenu, an INIT by Larry
Rosenstein.  This INIT causes a button press in the upper right or
left corner of the menu to display the application menu just as it
appears in the DA menu.  Of course, any program that doesn't show
the DA menu properly won't work right (but what do you expect from
programs like that?).

As for the new MultiFinder, I use it because I like 'Set Aside',
but I sure wish that instead of moving things and forcing us to
change our ways that they'd just make things user-definable.  Now
I have to scrll my DA menu just because the applications are all
at the top.  Well, maybe this'll give Larry R. or Steve Brecher
something to do.
-- 
David Elliott
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