Xref: utzoo comp.sys.mac:20734 comp.sys.mac.programmer:2524 Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!killer!ames!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!ssc-vax!cxsea!blm From: blm@cxsea.UUCP (Brian Matthews) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: Make Life Easier with the Control Panel and CDEVs Message-ID: <2495@cxsea.UUCP> Date: 23 Sep 88 16:01:04 GMT References: <886@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu> Reply-To: blm@cxsea.UUCP (Brian Matthews) Organization: Computer X Inc. Lines: 26 Paul G. Nevai (pgn@osupyr) writes: |Do you have a number of CDEV and are you sick of opening the Control Panel |and searching for the right CDEV? ... |Summary: use several copies of the Contol Panel each customized with Choose |CDEV*. This looks like a clever way to do this, but if you're like me and have a vast array of DAs already and don't want ten or so control panels, get the INIT called hierDA. I believe it was posted to comp.binaries.mac a bit ago, I've seen it on almost every bulletin board I call, and I'd be real surprised if sumex didn't have it. Anyways, what hierDA does is make each entry in the Apple menu which is a DA with a menu of it's own into a hierarchical entry, with the DA's menu being the submenu (read that aloud 5 time fast :-)). As a Special Added Bonus Feature, it makes all of the CDEVs in your system folder into a submenu of the Control Panel, so all you do is open the Apple menu, drag to Control Panel, and up pops a submenu containing the CDEVs. Choose one, and the Control Panel opens to that CDEV! Funky yet functional. Disclaimer: I have nothing to do with hierDA except using and admiring it. -- Brian L. Matthews blm@cxsea.UUCP ...{mnetor,uw-beaver!ssc-vax}!cxsea!blm +1 206 251 6811 Computer X Inc. - a division of Motorola New Enterprises