Some other OS-related problems

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Outliners.com Message ID: 289

Posted by mpt26
1999-08-31 08:08:31

Here’s some other minor OS-related (I think) problems I’ve found with More 3.1 and MacOS 8.6.

(1) In 8.6’s Page Setup, the More-specific options are oddly positioned in the dialog box—I’m guessing this is a side-effect of the controls’ original placement in the 7.x-style Page Setup dialog.

(2) The `Resume MORE’ file remembers More’s previous session, opening all outlines that were open last time More was quit. This would be great, except that More opens the outlines *read-only*, making the function useless because you have to close and re-open the outlines before you can get any work done.

(3) More doesn’t use the system alert sound (Quack, Sosumi, or whatever); it makes that quaint squeaking noise instead.

(4) More doesn’t quit when the Finder asks it to—you need to quit More manually before shutting down/restarting.

But hey, I’m not complaining—I’m in outliner heaven. My first experience with outliners was with a demo of an Amiga program called Flow (circa 1991). I thought it was quite cool, but didn’t realize that more powerful stuff like More existed. I write all my lecture notes out as approximate outlines during lectures anyway, so More is great for rewriting them into a more logical order later.

—mpt

PS: Netscape Communicator (4.5, anyway) also has the 7.x-style menus which Thomas Paul was quibbling about—as does Aldus Freehand 4.0, and BBEdit Lite 4.1, and probably any other older program which tries to do fancy stuff with its menus.

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