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Subject: Executor bugs/suggestions
Date: Mon, 07 Nov 1994 20:01:00 CST
From: Kurt R Glaesemann <kurtg@iastate.edu>
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As long as we are discussing what we think about executor again, I think
that I will throw in my 2 cents.
If you open the file utility in version 1.2 (haven't got 1.99 yet), and then
you click on the application, the file thingy goes to the back. This is
fine unless you are running a program that doesn't let you move windows, in
which case you can't get the file mover back because it is covered up. It
should come to the foreground whenever selected from the apple menu. If
this issue is irrelevent now I appologize.
Suggestions:
1. A scrapbook DA
This way multiple cuts/copies could be stored for use the next time that
executor is started up. This would reduce the nusance of only running one
application at a time.
2. A keycaps DA
A imitator of the keycaps da would be nice. Even better, an imitator
of the nortan key picker.
3. Browse option in file dialog boxes. It would be nice if the new file
browser GUI was availble through a comman-B option in file diologs. This
would be a definate improvement over real macs!!
4. A way to break out in a crash. I have frozen the demo before and it
would be nice to have an option to the executor with some key strokes that
"the program has frozen, take me to dos". This way just the mac environment
would be frozen rather than the whole computer (which forces a reboot
through the control-alt-delete we love microsoft salute).
5. Built in support for bin-hex when moving files from the mac side to the
DOS side.
6. A cool OS/2 and windows icon. Come on guys be proud of your work.
7. A refresh screen DA. Some applications behave badly under executor, and
it would be nice to send an update event to all windows, if the screen gets
messed up.
8. Posts to the comp.emulations.announce, comp.sys.mac.announce, and
*imbpc????*.announce would be nice. Only those people who already know
about executor read comp.emulations.misc. Spread to news (increase your
sales)
9. Upload your demo to msdos.archive.umich.edu/UPLOADS this puts it on AFS
and one of the largest ftp sites. I personally put the 1.2 demo there.
By the way most of the information in the "OTHER_SITES" file at your main
