Xref: utzoo comp.sys.mac:20756 comp.sys.mac.programmer:2526 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!amdcad!ames!ncar!mailrus!cornell!batcomputer!mha From: mha@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Mark H. Anbinder) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: Make Life Easier with the Control Panel and CDEVs Message-ID: <6400@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> Date: 24 Sep 88 00:33:58 GMT References: <886@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu> Reply-To: mha@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Mark H. Anbinder) Organization: Department of Media Services, Cornell University, Ithaca NY Lines: 44 In article <886@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu> pgn@osupyr (Paul G. Nevai) writes: > >Do you have a number of CDEV and are you sick of opening the Control Panel >and searching for the right CDEV? Are you a semi-power user equipped with >Choose CDEV* so at least one CDEV comes up immediately? Do you want to be >able to have any CDEV available immediately without frantic searching? Then >listen. > >Summary: use several copies of the Contol Panel each customized with Choose >CDEV*. No offense, but I can't think of sufficient reason to keep several copies of the Control Panel around. Even if I had unlimited disk space (I don't; few of us do) this sounds like a somewhat clumsy fix for what, admittedly, should not be as it is. It would definitely be nice to set a default CDEV to come up on top each time you used the Control Panel. Going straight to the individual one you have in mind each time, though, may be somewhat much. That's why the CDEVs are all in one place in the first place. Maybe Apple should alter the Control Panel slightly so that you could type the first letter of a CDEV and have it come up, the same way the Standard File Package GetFile dialog works. Of course, since you sometimes have to type into edit fields in CDEVs, it may be more appropriate to use Option with the letter, or some such. I just think Paul's solution, creative though it is (no sarcasm intended) isn't really a solution. > Triple Cheers for Pafnuty Lvovitch Tschebyscheff !!! > > (alias Cebyshev, Chebishev, Chebyshev, Csebisov, Tschebysev etc.) Who? >Paul Nevai pgn@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu >Department of Mathematics TS1171@OHSTVMA.bitnet >The Ohio State University 73057,172.Compu$erve >231 West Eighteenth Avenue 1-614-292-5310.office >Columbus, OH 43210, U.S.A. 1-614-292-4975.dept -- Mark H. Anbinder ** MHA@TCGould.tn.cornell.edu NG33 MVR Hall, Media Services Dept. ** THCY@CRNLVAX5.BITNET Cornell University H: (607) 257-7587 ******** Ithaca, NY 14853 W: (607) 255-1566 ******* Ego ipse custodies custudio