wow, tabbed folders are back (sort of)!

rok

a co-worker just showed this to me. to do it, your dock must be pinned to a side other than the bottom.



open a window, and drag it to the bottom of the screen, so that only the title bar is showing (it won't shrink to tab-size like in os 9, but beggars can't be choosers).



now, take anything you want, and drag it over the title bar and...



voila! the entire window rises to accept your offering! (and yes, spacebar makes it pop up immediately, too).



damn!



don't know if this is old news, but thought i would share.

ghost_user_name

Actually, this works on the sides of the screen too. Any Finder window that is partially off the screen will slide back for you to access its contents.



What's really cool, IMO, is that if you have it in the corner, it slides out diagonally.

mount_my_floppy

Hey thats pretty cool although I dont really see a need for this when you can just keep folders in the dock...

aquatic

Is this only in Jaguar?

jbl

[quote]Originally posted by Mount_my_floppy:

<strong>Hey thats pretty cool although I dont really see a need for this when you can just keep folders in the dock...</strong><hr></blockquote>



For one thing, with a "tabbed folder" you can place things in folders that are inside the main folder. (Okay that sentence didn't really make sense.) Folders on the dock don't open when you drag something over them so you can only place things at the top level of the hierarchy (actually I would have preferred to see the m fix this than create these tabbed folders but things are moving in the right direction).

tommy_thompson

Well...call me tired..or brain fried after working 14 hours straight...but I cannot get that feature to work that is described here. I have 10.2 on a 17" iMac....help my poor fried brain! AAAAAAhhhhhhhhhhh! *slips into badly needed deep sleep*

<img src="graemlins/bugeye.gif" border="0" alt="[Skeptical]" />

mount_my_floppy

JBL usually i dont do enough dragging to make this usefull. I figure I just open the folder and drag away.

ghost_user_name

Here, tommy, watch this movie:



<a href="http://homepage.mac.com/bradster/.Movies/sliding-window.mov"; target="_blank">http://homepage.mac.com/bradster/.Movies/sliding-window.mov</a>;

mactech

That is a neat trick. It has some weird actions though, drag a folder to one, let it 'slide-up' then move your mouse quickly to some other part of the screen, but then don't move the mouse. The dimmed image of the folder is somewhere between the tabbed window and where you moved your mouse. Move your mouse again slightly and the folder will then move to where your mouse is. You have to do it fast or it won't happen.

Do any of you see this kind of action?

I am running a dual867.



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ibrowse

Yeah I saw it too, that's weird.

mount_my_floppy

Yeah i get it too must have somethign to do with quartz and an error in rendering

tommy_thompson

Thank you for doing this...now I have had some sleep..I went to the finder prefs..and that is where I found why it was not coming up at all...and then set it to short. SWEET!



Thank you Brad!





tommy

chucker

I finally understood why it's called "Spring-loading folders and windows" That's cool. Hopefully, the Dock will support it too in 10.3...

altivec_2.0

Something in 10.3 That I would like to see is were you can chose between lets say a Photoedit Dock, and then a Movie dock. Appl dock, Internet so forth and so on.