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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
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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 


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