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- From: cfry@MIT.EDU (Christopher Fry)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp.mcl
- Subject: Re: I Want my own framework...
- Message-ID: <9211182127.AA16643@MIT.EDU>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 22:25:37 GMT
- Sender: info-mcl-request@cambridge.apple.com
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- Approved: comp.lang.lisp.mcl@Cambridge.Apple.C0M
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- Congrats to Dan LaLiberte on separate "applications" within MCL.
- Good idea, nice implementation, potentially important implications.
-
- Two little ideas:
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- >All applications, stored in the list *applications*, are added
- > to the Apple menu under the About ... item.
-
- You might also want to put these under the Mac sys 7 apps menu on the
- RIGHT of the menu bar. If the goal here is to not have the user care
- whether the app is a lisp-app or not, this would make sense.
-
- ____
- I use Now Utilities. One of the features I like most about it is that
- you can set up application switching such that it will hide the
- windows of the other app whenever you switch apps. This means, of
- course, that you can't simply click on a window of another app to
- switch apps, you've got to pick it off a menu. But it means your screen
- isn't cluttered with windows from other apps which is sometimes what you
- want. I'd recommend putting a slot in each app called
- HIDE-OTHERS-WHEN-RESUMED?
- And have a way that you could easily change the bit for individual apps
- or change all as a group.
-