Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!mit-eddie!killer!pollux!ti-csl!home!martin From: martin@home.csc.ti.com (Steven Martin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: CloseView Message-ID: <52653@ti-csl.CSNET> Date: 29 Jun 88 15:30:52 GMT References: <11495@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> Sender: news@ti-csl.CSNET Reply-To: martin@home.UUCP (Steven Martin) Organization: TI Computer Science Center, Dallas Lines: 19 It seems to me that the activation of CloseView is handled in the exact opposite of what would be convenient. CloseView is the kind of utility that you would want to have off most of the time, but turn it on temporarily when you need it. As it comes, you are forced to have it on when you boot, then must dig into the control panel to turn it off. How did something so counter-intuitive make it into the System Release! Also, here is a strange trick. Turn CloseView on. Go into the Control Panel and open the MAP cdev. Now turn CloseView off (with the keystroke, not the Control Panel). You will notice that you now have a zoomed in view of the map that stays zoomed as you look around. Is that documented or just a bizarre (and useful) bug? Steve Martin USENET: {ctvax,im4u,texsun,rice}!ti-csl!martin GENIE: S.MARTIN8 PHONE: (214)-995-5919, 404-1061 "When you've got a bug don't fix it. Write another piece of code to recognize that it's about to happen and head it off." - Marvin Minsky