F9 shows you miniature versions of all open windows. F10 shows you miniature versions of all open windows in the current application. F11 hides all windows and shows you your desktop.
One great use of Exposé is dragging and dropping email attachments. Let's say I've just created a PDF and saved it to the desktop. Next, I switch to Mail, via Panther's excellent cmd-Tab implementation (it's like alt-Tab on Windows except it invokes a large, centered temporary "Dock" of currently running applications, which stays up as long as you hold down the command key. To choose the application, cmd-tab your way to it then release the keys). I type up the email, and when I'm ready to add the attachment at the end, I hit F11 and I can easily find the PDF I created. I click and drag it, then hit F11 again (to bring back the Mail windows), and drop the PDF into the message window. Much easier (for me, at least) than choosing "Add Attachment" and navigating to the file from there.
Of course, you could do this back in Jaguar with cmd-H (to hide all Mail windows) -- er, unless you had other applications running, then you'd have to hide them too. So forget that. Hmmm... you could have switched to the Finder via cmd-Tab, and then hit cmd-opt-H to hide all windows in all other applications -- but that involves needlessly switching applications. And there's no keyboard shortcut to *show* all windows again. Exposé's F11 is great because you can instantly access the desktop from whatever application you're working in, without ever leaving that application.
- Darcy
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On 17 Dec 2003, at 03:26 PM, David W. Fenton wrote:
On 17 Dec 2003 at 8:09, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote:
As a very fast user of ALT-TAB and CTL-TAB (and not having seen this new Mac thing), I don't think I'd be using such a feature because I'm at the keyboard, not the mouse. And a screen full of little windows doesn't seem especially different from the window full of program icons that pops up with ALT-TAB -- except that I'd have to reach for the mouse in 'expose'.
What if Alt-Tab were mapped to Expose, so you didn't have to use the mouse to activate it? To me it seems obvious that it would be great to have as much information displayed onscreen as possible about the windows open.
Also, having Expose also available for navigating between document windows *within* an application seems like a very good thing. In Windows programs, yes, we can Ctrl-F6, but that doesn't have the visual representation that Alt-Tab has, so you're flying blind. Also, Alt-Tab cycles through the programs, whereas Expose gives you the direct path, visually.
-- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc
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