Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Path: utzoo!utgpu!trigraph!john
From: john@trigraph.uucp (John Chew)
Subject: Re: MultiFKEY...
Message-ID: <1989Nov28.200940.29423@trigraph.uucp>
Sender: "John J. Chew" <john@trigraph.UUCP>
Reply-To: "John J. Chew" <poslfit@gpu.UTCS.UToronto.CA>
Organization: Trigraph Inc., Toronto, Canada
References: <63360@tiger.oxy.edu> <1571@intercon.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 89 20:09:40 GMT

Andrew D. Sonenblick <sonenbli@oxy.edu> wrote in <63360@tiger.oxy.edu>:
>    Wouldn't it be nice to have an FKEY in the Finder that would launch
> MultiFinder...

Amanda Walker <amanda@intercon.com> replied in <1571@intercon.com>:
>Well, QuicKeys lets you launch a program from a keyboard macro.  Not quite
>as simple as an FKEY, but it works.

Except that MultiFinder is a system document and not an application,
so QuicKeys puts up a dialog box asking for an application with which
to launch it.  You can change its type from ZSYS to APPL and everything
seems to work fine then -- can anyone think of any reason why this would
be a bad thing to do?

John
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