Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: $Revision: 1.6.2.16 $; site inmet.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!harvard!bbnccv!inmet!bhyde From: bhyde@inmet.UUCP Newsgroups: net.micro.mac Subject: Re: Multiple File Selection in SFGetFile Message-ID: <26700035@inmet.UUCP> Date: Wed, 25-Sep-85 12:06:00 EDT Article-I.D.: inmet.26700035 Posted: Wed Sep 25 12:06:00 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 1-Oct-85 10:03:27 EDT References: <546@k.UUCP> Lines: 19 Nf-ID: #R:k:-54600:inmet:26700035:000:994 Nf-From: inmet!bhyde Sep 25 12:06:00 1985 "Hey Tim" The purpose of standard user interfaces is to provide the user with dependable consistent unsurprizing service. Consider that this these standards are used in MacDraw for objects, the Finder for documents, MacWrite for selection regions, etc. etc. Changing this isn't user friendly. The short comming of shift click is that for huge multiple selections it is a lot of work. For example to sellect most of the files in a folder of fifty files is a pain. In such cases alternate methods (nonstandard--bizzare methods) seem called for, wild cards etc. The only models for those I'm aware of those are the querry mechinisms in the data base products. They all seem sort of clunky. The finder convention of allowing a sellected file to be desellected via an additional shift click is some help. For example one can drag sellect the entire folder's contents, sort-size desellect a few, sort-alpha desellect a few, and then sort-kind and resellect a few. ben hyde, cambridge.