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Subject: Re: Multiple File Selection in SFGetFile
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Date: Wed, 25-Sep-85 12:06:00 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep 25 12:06:00 1985
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"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.