Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!watmath!iuvax!uxc.cso.uiuc.edu!tank!stel From: stel@tank.uchicago.edu (stelios valavanis) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Finder Open Wish Message-ID: <5033@tank.uchicago.edu> Date: 17 Aug 89 15:31:27 GMT References:Reply-To: stel@tank.uchicago.edu (stelios valavanis) Organization: University of Chicago Lines: 25 In article dh07+@andrew.cmu.edu (David Hairston) writes: >effect the same. personally, i'd also like to see the finder use an >"open file dialog" when "Open" is used and no file is currently >selected. in addition, i'd like that "open file dialog" to have two >windows, one containing only folders and the other containing only >non-folder type files within the currently selected folder. thus the >first window is used for movement and the second window for selection. >The ability to create folders on the run within this dialog would also >be nice! >-dave- >hairston@henry.ece.cmu.edu i agree with the feature "new folder" in the dialog box but i don't think there should be two windows (folders, and files) just the way it's done in applics right now. ALSO how about double clicking a file or opening it in the finder opens that app but just opens the file in that app if the app is already open (instead of a seconf copy running)? also hierarchical DAs are a must stel -- Bitnet: uclstel@uchimvs1.bitnet | remember, you can't know something Internet: stel@tank.uchicago.edu | you know, but you can be uucp: ...!uunet!mimsy!oddjob!tank!stel | aware of it