Re: GS/OS 6.0.1

[roughana <andrew.roughan@writeme.com>]

On Jan 28, 9:52 pm, Oracle <oraclemas...@inwind.it> wrote:
> One annoying feature of GSOS is that if I have several windows over-
> lapping and launch an application, when I return to GSOS the windows
> are
> presented in 'reverse-overlap' order except for the very bottom one
> which is brought to the top.  This also slows down the screen update
> as the deepest folder is drawn twice.  Is there a way to stop this
> or do I just put up with it?

You can turn off this practice altogether by unclicking the "Save
Finder information onto disk" preference
See Special menu -> Preferences

Once you've stopped Finder from doing it, if you want to, you can
replicate/improve what Finder does by doing it yourself with the help
of Interprocess Communication.
Listen for finderSaysGoodbye (see Prog Ref 6.0 pg 375+) and then work
out what all the open windows are and their size/positions - save this
info somewhere
Listen for finderSaysHello and use the info you saved to tell finder
to
open the windows and then size/position them appropriately.

BTW: I wrote a FinderExtension to emulate what Finder does for write
protected volumes (e.g. CDs)
You can get "Virtual Data" here:
http://home.datacodsl.com/kalandi/apple/finished_projects.html

Regards,
Andrew