Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!apple.com!leahy3 From: leahy3@apple.com (Frank Leahy) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Mr. Macintosh Message-ID: <4481@internal.Apple.COM> Date: 29 Sep 89 21:18:35 GMT Sender: usenet@Apple.COM Organization: Apple Computer, Inc. Lines: 18 References:<817zebolskyd@yvax.byu.edu> <26744@dhw68k.cts.com> While I've never heard of a Mr. Mac icon, I do know that there is a MrMacHook, and it's still there. Mr. MacHook (also known as MBarHook in InsideMacintosh) is a hook that gets called every time a menu is pulled down. Late one night, while the Mac was being built, apparently someone thought it would be funny to have a little program (the hook) that would count the number of times a menu was pulled down, and then on the 10,000 th (or some other appropriate number) time display an animating image (Mr. Macintosh) instead of the menu. If you look at the MrMacHook (called such in the original assembly language headers) parameters, it takes the menu rect, and returns a boolean telling the MDEF whether to go ahead and draw the menu or not. It could actually be fun to do an INIT with various MrMacHooks based on birthdays, holidays, etc.. Frank Leahy (In a former life Mr. MenuManager) Software Engineering Apple Computer, Inc.