i, too, am looking forward to your review of SAM. for several years, i’ve been using “auto-hide” 1.3.6, which was abandoned by it’s developer at least 4 years ago. there was a 1.3.7 and a 1.3.8, but they were both extremely buggy for most users. many asked for 1.3.6 to be reposted, but i don’t think it ever was. fortunately, i had a copy in a backup, and i use it to this day.

the only caveat to using auto-hide is that 2 or 3 times a week, its configuration window will appear out of nowhere — even though i didn’t summon it. it’s harmless; i just dismiss the window and keep working. but i put up with it because auto-hide has a feature that none of the newer apps (like “spirited away”) has — a “never hide when switching to” list, which is independent from the typical “never hide when switching away from” list. that feature has more uses than i can name. for example, typically, i have most of my apps hide when i switch away from them. but there’s an app called “free ruler” that i occasionally call up to measure items on the screen. so i told auto-hide “never hide when switching to free ruler.” this way, an app that normally hides will *not* hide, when i switch to the ruler, because i’m switching in order to measure something.

well, this is more like an article than a comment. if you want more info, i’ll be happy to discuss with you. i’d love to find an up-to-date replacement for auto-hide — with the same features — so this topic is of great interest to me.

thanks.

-merv

Strange that having a smaller screen 12″ seems to make using the full screen easier or more of a necessity… I thought that having a bigger screen 15″ with the MBP would get me out of the full screen habit but it has not. I think if I worked more at my 17″ iMac I would be more likely to use smaller application windows and thus more likely to have desktop and clutter of multiple windows.

– Given my nondisclosure agreement with Apple, I’m not going to say anything about Spaces that isn’t revealed in Apple’s own presentation of it on the Leopard website.

I wished other some other Mac developers were as ethical as you are….

Happy Holidays.

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