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- >>>>> "Steve" == Steve Sinnott <rrs0030@ibm.net> writes:
-
- Steve> On Wed, 12 Jul 95 17:01 MDT you wrote:
- >>>>>>> "Scott" == Scott Shuchart <shuchart@husc.harvard.edu>
- >>>>>>> writes:
- >>
- Scott> Has anyone played around with fonts/DAs in the hotband
- Scott> enough to have any useful suggestions for the rest of us?
- ...
- Mat Hostetter> Yeah, that's badly broken right now.
-
- Steve> No, it's not.. I tried 4 DA's this morning, and 3
- Steve> worked. Specifically, I tried To Do! 3.2.1, DtC 303, Disk
- Steve> Top 1.2, and Scrapz 1.3.2. To Do! is a (oddly enough) to-do
- Steve> list, and it worked perfectly. DtC is a Scientific
- Steve> Calculator, and it ran, but all the calculations were
- Steve> completely wrong (9 times 9 is not -14. I think.). Disk Top
- Steve> is a DA that tells your disk free-space. I didn't expect it
- Steve> to work, and it didn't. GPF-city.
-
- DAs do much better under 1.99n than previously, but there are still
- some major problems:
-
- Browser doesn't put DAs in the Apple menu immediately when
- they are put in the hotband -- we'll fix Browser to do this
- hopefully in the next day or two. Additionally, you can't
- double-click a DA in the hot-band to start it, so you have
- to run some other program *and the* check the Apple menu for
- the DA that you've installed.
-
- It is possible to install the same DA more than once. Ick.
-
- Browser frequently forgets what's in the DA hotband, so there
- is no way to remove DAs once they've been placed in there and
- then forgotten.
-
- Executor's DA execution code is still fairly untested (because
- it used to be very hard to install DAs), so many DAs surprise
- it (i.e. Executor crashes or works improperly with many DAs).
-
- Steve> Scrapz is the most interesting, and useful. It's a
- Steve> Scrapbook replacement, but it has import/export functions,
- Steve> resizeable windows, multiple scrapbooks, gallery view, and
- Steve> more. It also holds the clippings across sessions. It works
- Steve> fine, except that the pull-down menu wouldn't let me select
- Steve> items, I had to use the command-key equivalents.
-
- Yes, Scrapz has been recommended by others. We'll try to get it
- totally working by the time 2.0 ships.
-
- Steve> Before anyone starts asking where to get them, they were on
- Steve> one of my CD's. Sorry.
-
- Steve> The only other result of my testing today was to discover
- Steve> that taking the CD out in the middle of a session (even if
- Steve> it's not in use at the moment) will lock my computer
- Steve> up. Not a good thing.
-
- Ouch. Can you use Ctrl-BREAK and get a backtrace when this happens?
- If so, we can decode it and then see what we can do.
-
- Steve> Still, the DA support seems to be there, and it works
- Steve> pretty well... Good job!
-
- We're making improvements -- it's just that we have *so* much to do
- before 2.0 is ready. Hackathon I will be a nice diversion (few new
- features added, mostly just making more applications work better).
-
- BTW, BleedingEdge will soon contain 1.99n5, which should allow DOS
- users to use CD-ROMs up through and including Z: and should also allow
- DOS users to get into their network and CD-ROM filesystems. Everyone
- will also be able to take color TIFF screendumps with Cmd-Shift-3.
-
- --Cliff
-
-