Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!microsoft!stuartb From: stuartb@microsoft.UUCP (Stuart Burden) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Finder Improvements Summary: Command keys and the DA Handler Message-ID: <1026@microsoft.UUCP> Date: 28 Nov 88 13:59:13 GMT References: <5215@polya.Stanford.EDU> <693@ethz.UUCP> Reply-To: stuartb@microsoft.UUCP (Stuart Burden) Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA Lines: 39 In article <5215@polya.Stanford.EDU> czychi@bernina.UUCP (Gary Czychi) writes: | what I would like to see much more would be a small | enhancement of the DA Handler. Nearly *every* application | (even those from Microsoft) have their command-W and their | command-Q for close/quit. Why doesn't the DA Handler takes | advantage of the *Apple* user interface?? It would seem logical to me, that none of these command keys would apply to DA Handler. Thus leaving those keys available to be implemented by the DA itself, as a Quit or Window close command. While it seems a little strange to "Quit" a DA rather than close it, under MultiFinder this is not so strange, as you are running under a seperate application layer (DA Handler), and thus makes it logical to quit the "application" which is basically what the DA has become. What I'm curious about is the way DA's close themselves. Most DA's will quit the DA Handler, but some do not. It would seem that most "well behaved" DA's should also close the DA Handler, that way you really don't need to have a quit command key for DA Handler cos it will disappear when the DA itself is closed or quit from. Perhaps someone might shed some light on the standard closing practice of DA's and how this effects (should effect) the DA Handler. | ...just a question... :-) | Gary Stu. __Paths to my door:______________________ stuartb@microsof.beaver.cs.washington.edu stuartb%microsof@uw-beaver.arpa stuartb@microsof.uucp _________________________________________ Usual disclaimer, that all the above is pure fantasy and Microsoft only gave me the Mountain Dew to dream it all in a caffeine haze :-{) :-{) _______________________________________________________________________