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From: pkorn@utastro.UUCP (Hydro Man)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: MultiFinder
Summary: For free it's MFMenu+; for cost its OnCue
Keywords: System 7.0
Message-ID: <4175@utastro.UUCP>
Date: 9 Aug 89 17:01:54 GMT
References: <2276@sol.oakhill.UUCP> <474@gistdev.UUCP> <458@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU>
Organization: Chaotic Institute for Galactic Sewage Removal
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In article <458@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU>, mjkobb@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Michael J Kobb) writes:
> In article <474@gistdev.UUCP> joe@gistdev.UUCP (Joe Brownlee) writes:
> >In article <2276@sol.oakhill.UUCP> joej@oakhill.UUCP (Joe Jelemensky) writes:
> >> In article <1342@esquire.UUCP> uunet!esquire!yost (David A. Yost) writes:
> >> >I think the list of active apps should not be on the apple menu, but in
> >> >a pulldown menu under the tiny Current App icon on the right of the menu
> >> >bar [ ... ]
> >> I like this solution.
> >I do, too.  The Apple menu is cluttered enough as it is now, not counting the
> I think that this is a TERRIFFIC idea!  The little icon would seem to be the
> perfect place for such a menu.  How about this, then:  you move the mouse
> onto that icon, and the application menu "falls" down (i.e. no click), and
> you can choose.  Or, if
> you click the icon, it switches as before.
> I disagree on the idea of a seperate "Applications" menu, however.  For those of
> --Mike

I was going to respond by mail, but since there are four of these, I've
decided to post this.  All of these ideas are incorporated into an INIT
called MFMenu+ available for *free* via anonymous FTP at sumex under
the titel MFMenu-Plus-.  Additionally you can install applications and
documents that you can *open* directly from this menu.  You can set the menu
to appear with or without a click or even anywhere on the screen when
you click when the keys of your choice are pressed.  The only feature
missing from MFMenu+ that's in the pay version, OnCue, is that OnCue saves
the applications and documents that you install before shutdown.  One nice
frill is that any applications for which you have defined cicns via the
the Color Finder INIT will appear in color.

If anyone's interested OnCue is available from

IMI Software
121 14th Street
Seal Beach, CA 90740

I'm not associated with IMI Software and I don't know what their policies
are like; I only know this information from having obtained MFMenu+.
This sure does sound like I was set up, though. . .  Nah, it's not
uncommon to find people thinking up software ideas concurrently.

Paul Kornreich				pkorn@astro.as.utexas.edu
Astronomy
The University of Texas at Austin

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