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- From: neeri@iis.ethz.ch (Matthias Neeracher)
- Subject: Re: SFGetFile's directory after an Open Event
- In-Reply-To: peter@cujo.curtin.edu.au's message of 5 Jan 93 13:54:59 GMT
- Message-ID: <NEERI.93Jan6142745@iis.ethz.ch>
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- Organization: Integrated Systems Laboratory, ETH, Zurich
- References: <1993Jan4.190815.5881@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz> <1993Jan4.205533.25405@kth.se>
- <76105@apple.apple.COM> <1993Jan5.135459.8834@cujo.curtin.edu.au>
- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 13:27:45 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan5.135459.8834@cujo.curtin.edu.au>, peter@cujo.curtin.edu.au (Peter N Lewis) writes:
-
- >>But what about when the user makes a change to the open document
- >>and then chooses Save As...? Standard File continues to point to
- >>somewhere irrelevant (for most Apple event-aware apps, anyway.)
-
- > IMHO, Save As should ALWAYS set the StandardFile
- > location to the folder that the file previously existed in (assuming
- > it had a name/folder location beforehand of course).
-
- Unless this ALWAYS is restricted to odoc started documents, I disagree. I often
- find myself performing the sequence:
-
- - Open File A in folder X
- - Open File B in folder X
- - Open File C in folder X
- - Save File A in folder Y
- - Save File B in folder Y
- - Save File C in folder Y
-
- Matthias
-
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- Matthias Neeracher neeri@iis.ethz.ch
- `We say "gestalt" when things combine to act in ways we can't explain'
- -- Marvin Minsky, _The Society Of Mind_
-