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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)
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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.
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Brian L. Matthews  blm@cxsea.UUCP   ...{mnetor,uw-beaver!ssc-vax}!cxsea!blm
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