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Opening a Folder from the Dock

Sick of the dock on Mac OS X Leopard not being able to open folders with a simple click, like sanity demands and like it used to be in Tiger? You can, of course click it, and then click again on Open in Finder, but that's twice as many clicks as it used to be. (And while you're at it, Control-click the folder, and choose both Display as Folder and View Content as List from the contextual menu. Once you have the content displaying as a list, there's an Open command right there, but that requires Control-clicking and choosing a menu item.) The closest you can get to opening a docked folder with a single click is Command-click, which opens its enclosing folder. However, if you instead put a file from the docked folder in the Dock, and Command-click that file, you'll see the folder you want. Of course, if you forget to press Command when clicking, you'll open the file, which may be even more annoying.

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C Shells by the C Shore

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Last week's article on Ostrakon, an application shell for THINK C, garnered a response that we feel worth mentioning this week. We said then that compiler packages often came with skeleton applications for people to flesh out, but that Ostrakon took this idea one step farther by providing extensive documentation and commented code. For those who would prefer less external support and a non-existent price tag, there is public domain MPW and THINK C source code for Macintosh applications called TransSkel. TransSkel has been around for some time, and several other modules are available for added functionality. These are TransDisplay and TransEdit, for display windows and standard editing windows. According to Steve Hite, who informed us of our oversight, the TransSkel code is well thought out and structured enough to provide the base for a professional application.

It is available via anonymous FTP from sumex-aim.stanford.edu (see your system administrator if you are unsure if you have FTP or don't know how to use it). Ostrakon undoubtedly has some benefits, but you can't beat the price for TransSkel.

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Steve Hite -- ...gatech!uflorida!unf7!shite

 

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