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From: ar4@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Piper Keairnes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Hiding background layers in MultiFinder
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Date: 11 Jan 90 04:27:33 GMT
References: <21743@mimsy.umd.edu>
Reply-To: ar4@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Piper Keairnes)
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In article <21743@mimsy.umd.edu> spector@brillig.umd.edu (Lee Spector) writes:
>Is there some easy way, via some OS trick or an available init, to make 
>multifinder hide all but the frontmost layer?  This is for a friend of mine 
>who needs to use multifinder, but who gets very confused when the screen 
>shows several open applications and the finder simultaneously.

I know of two well-working solutions that I use everyday. MasterJuggler 1.5
allows application switching from pop-up menus with what I have set as
cmd-option-click. This closes all windows but White Knight 11.0 as I hear.

Also, there is a Multifinder out there of version 6.1b7. This has a new feature
called SetAside that is available in the Apple menu. That feature hides all
windows for the current application and removes that applications from the
normal click-on-the-little-MF-icons list. You can take the shortcut and
option-click on the MF-icon and that will set aside the current applications.
I just use a series of option-clicks to reach the application I want at that
moment and keep the rest hidden.

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