Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!oddjob!mimsy!eneevax!umd5!ames!coherent!dplatt From: dplatt@coherent.com (Dave Platt) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: CloseView Message-ID: <6154@coherent.com> Date: 30 Jun 88 03:55:21 GMT References: <11495@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <52653@ti-csl.CSNET> Reply-To: dplatt@coherent.com (Dave Platt) Distribution: comp Organization: Coherent Thought Inc., Palo Alto CA Lines: 32 In article <52653@ti-csl.CSNET> martin@home.UUCP (Steven Martin) writes: > 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! I think perhaps you're missing the point of CloseView. It seems to me that the primary purpose of CloseView (and of its earlier cousin Easy Access) is to make the Mac usable by people who have significant physical impairments of one sort or another. CloseView is designed to come up enabled _because_ people who really need it cannot use the Mac easily (or at all) without it. If one cannot read the Mac screen at its standard 1:1 magnification, then it's _impossible_ to pull down the Control Panel DA, hunt down the CloseView CDEV, and turn it on! Take a look at the CloseView instructions in the System 6.0 manual... they're written in oversized type so that the folks that really need CloseView can see the installation instructions. Nice touch, Apple! If you need occasional magnification of a portion of the screen, I'd suggest using one of the free "magnifying glass" desk accessories that are floating around... they don't work exactly as CloseView does, but they're an "on demand" tool rather than a "by default" aspect of the system. -- Dave Platt VOICE: (415) 493-8805 USNAIL: Coherent Thought Inc. 3350 West Bayshore #205 Palo Alto CA 94303 UUCP: ...!{ames,sun,uunet}!coherent!dplatt DOMAIN: dplatt@coherent.com INTERNET: coherent!dplatt@ames.arpa, ...@sun.com, ...@uunet.uu.net