Slightly OT: finder key command - bring all to front

2003-06-09 Thread Paul
On Friday, June 6, 2003, at 11:16 AM, Shay Telfer wrote: thanks Shay, but perhaps i should clarify: running several applications, i might wanna switch to the finder to drag a file onto a relevant application/document, but when i switch to the finder, the windows/documents of various

finder key command - bring all to front

2003-06-06 Thread Greg Hosking
Hi All, looking for a way to make the menu item Bring All to Front a key command, especially in the finder, but hopefully one that would apply to any currently active App. Searching Mac Help, Apple support Google turned up ZERO, which surprised me for such an much-used function! cheers

Re: finder key command - bring all to front

2003-06-06 Thread Shay Telfer
Hi All, looking for a way to make the menu item Bring All to Front a key command, especially in the finder, but hopefully one that would apply to any currently active App. Searching Mac Help, Apple support Google turned up ZERO, which surprised me for such an much-used function! Command-Tab

Re: finder key command - bring all to front clarification

2003-06-06 Thread Greg Hosking
On Friday, June 6, 2003, at 10:35 AM, Shay Telfer wrote: Hi All, looking for a way to make the menu item Bring All to Front a key command, especially in the finder, but hopefully one that would apply to any currently active App. Searching Mac Help, Apple support Google turned up ZERO, which

Re: finder key command - bring all to front clarification

2003-06-06 Thread Shay Telfer
thanks Shay, but perhaps i should clarify: running several applications, i might wanna switch to the finder to drag a file onto a relevant application/document, but when i switch to the finder, the windows/documents of various application remain in front of open finder windows, which i want to

Re: finder key command - bring all to front clarification

2003-06-06 Thread Martin Hill
Greg, were you aware that if you click on the Finder icon (or the icon of any application) in the Dock it will bring all the windows of that process to the front. (as opposed to clicking on one window of an App or Finder which only brings that window to the front) Also, if you control-click

Re: finder key command - bring all to front clarification

2003-06-06 Thread Matt Huitson
Hi Greg, In addition to the advice from Shay and Martin, might I also suggest you take a look at a shareware app called App Switcher (check versiontracker). I use it as part of my reassignment of the application-shifting key combo from Command-Tab to Opt-Tab. A neat extra feature of this app

Re: finder key command - bring all to front clarification

2003-06-06 Thread Greg Hosking
Also, if you control-click (or right-click or hold the mouse down for 2 seconds) on the Finder icon or an Application's icon in the Dock, a menu pops up allowing you to choose any of the currently open windows of that app (or the Finder). Ahah!! that's the answer i was looking for, cheers

Re: finder key command - bring all to front clarification

2003-06-06 Thread Greg Hosking
cheers Matt, i will look into this as i have installed the Pulltab 'haxie' to get rid of the command-tab shortcut altogether as it interferes with application shortcuts... changing to opt+tab would be preferable ta g On Friday, June 6, 2003, at 11:35 AM, Matt Huitson wrote: Hi Greg, In