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- What is FinderKeys??
-
- The Finder in System 7.0 has a feature whereby you can type into a Finder
- window and the Finder will select the first icon that corresponds to what
- you've typed so far. The feature is nice, but current versions of Finder
- 7.0 are buggy as hell, thus FinderKeys.
-
- FinderKeys, however, does not work exactly as Finder 7.0 does. Instead of
- selecting the first icon that corresponds to what you've typed, FinderKeys
- selects ALL of the icons that correspond to what you've typed. For example,
- if you type "p", all files that begin with p will be selected. As long as
- you keep typing a name, FinderKeys accumulates what you've typed so far and
- selects icons accordingly; if you wait more than a third of a second (well,
- 2 * KeyThresh actually; it depends on what you do in the Keyboard cdev)
- then FinderKeys will start you over again.
-
- One problem with this approach is that it becomes impossible to re-name files
- in the Finder. To get around this, if you hit the escape key, you have 6.2
- seconds (372 ticks) to re-name the file. (The escape key goes unseen by the
- Finder.) The 6.2 second wait aborts if you hit return, thus naming the file.
-
- On additional feature, done to emulate standard file's UI, is that if you
- hit return, it acts the same as hitting command-O in the Finder, thus
- typing a name followed by return is like selecting the icons and opening
- them.
-
- Future enhancements include making less flicker appear, having some way
- to select a file named "F" and only that file when there are many icons
- named starting with an F, and other compatibility issues (this has been
- tested only with Finder 6.1.5 and 6.1.4; use others at your own risk.)
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- If you have any problems with this INIT, please contact me:
-
- Jörg 'jbx' Brown
-
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