On 12/16/00 12:40 PM, Remo Del Bello [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> on 12/16/2000 8:15 AM, Jim Baskins deftly typed out:
>
>>> Holding down the option key doesn't change a thing on my Mac - OS 9.04. Does
>>> it work for you?
>>
>> It does work for me, and I just found it in the MacOS Help files. Never knew
>> it existed, wondering if it's new for 9. Easy and beats the script I posted.
>> I'm using the application menu as a tear-off menu if that makes any
>> difference, (no mention of this in the help files).
>
> It's been there since at least System 7. Just option-click a background
> application and the foreground app will hide. You can option-click a window
> of the app you want to switch to or hold down the option key when selecting
> an app from the Application Menu or whatever you preferred method of
> switching is. As long as you're holding down the option key when you switch
> apps the foreground app will hide.
If I option-click on an app in the torn off application switcher (menu) it
hides *all* the other apps in the background. This is what I was wondering
about when I asked if it was new. To my knowledge it had always worked the
way you describe it, hiding just the app you option clicked on. Or maybe I'm
confused and we're trying to say the same thing, I just don't remember it
hiding all the other apps when bringing the "new" app you just clicked to
the foreground. Damn 1960's, I still haven't recovered.
Regards,
Jim Baskins
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