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Contents:
Release Notes
About this module
Description
Feature summary
Distribution
Contacting the author
Disclaimer
• Release Notes:
Version 3.0.1 - Dec. 9, 1995
• Fixed another FileSharing conflict.
Version 3.0 - Nov. 15, 1995
• Everything in a folder is displayed, rather than just files. Folders have a 'ƒ' symbol to the left.
• Menu displays are of a single folder, rather than version 2.0's multi-folder approach.
• Supports System 7.5's disabled folder names. Also recognizes the configurable 'Disabled Control Strip Modules' folder of Extensions Strip 1.1 and later.
• Display of the Control Strip Modules folder now uses a custom icon on the strip, since the latest system software still hasn't come up with a standard icon for it.
• Extensions Strip savvy. This means that when your module host is ES:
- Sending any event, such as opening a control panel, will work no matter what program is front-most. (Under other module hosts, the event will fail if the front process does not support AppleEvents.)
- Clicking on me with modifier key(s) down, while the CPU is busy, will still work if you later release the key(s).
- Clicking and releasing the mouse over any spot of the module will open up the appropriate folder. (Under other module hosts, the click must be directly over the icon, and cannot be in the boundaries of the module, since there is no way to calculate this area.)
- No idle time is used. (All modules open by other module hosts, that strictly follow the Control Strip API, eat idle time.)
• FAT binary. When used with a PowerMac, and Extensions Strip, PPC native code is used.
• New file icon. To see it, you need to rebuild your desktop file by holding down the command and option keys on startup.
Version 2.x - May, June 1995
• You call that a feature?!? Version 2 added stuff that people didn't like such as the display of enabled and disabled files in one menu, and the slow launching of the background daemon.
Version 1.x - June 1994
• Initial release. First control strip module module ever I wrote, and what got me hooked :-)
• About this module:
Description:
“Thanks for a great piece of software (Control Panels Strip 3.0)! Just what
the doctor ordered. Apple ought to include this little baby as a standard
module.”
-- Jeff Miles
Control Panels Strip is a control strip module that exists to provide a fast and easy way to open control panels. It also allows the viewing and modification of items in the Extensions folder (command-click), the Control Strip Modules folder (control-click), the Startup Items folder (option-click), and their subsequent disabled folders (add holding the shift key.)
Feature summary:
• Open a base folder by clicking and releasing the mouse over the module's spot on the strip.
• Open an item by selecting it from the popup menu.
• Dis/enable an item by selecting it with the shift key held down.
• Move an item to the trash by selecting it with the option key down.
• Get the Finder info of an item by selecting it with the command key down.
• Use balloon help on the module if you forget which key does what :-)
• Distribution:
Control Panels Strip may be distributed freely, but it must remain in its unmodified entirety. It can be put on disks and CD-ROMs that charge a reasonable fee for the cost of distributing it. I would appreciate a copy each of any such disks or CD-ROMs so that I know what it is being distributed on, but it is not a necessity. Thank you.
I also ask that you contact me about the latest version so that only that version is distributed. The latest version is always available at this internet World Wide Web location:
http://www.shore.net/~chanson
• Contacting the author:
The author, Ammon Skidmore, can be reached by sending e-mail to <skidperfect@kagi.com>, which currently gets forwarded to my regular address of <ammon@cs.byu.edu> here at Brigham Young University.
Note: rarely, the CS alias file here becomes temporarily corrupted, in which case mail will never get to me, yet will not bounce! So, if I do not respond to an email message within 3 business days, please send it again.
If you're really bored, you can also check out my WWW homepage:
http://students.cs.byu.edu/~ammon/ammon.html
• Disclaimer:
This software is provided as-is. The author cannot be held responsible of any damage it might cause. There is no warranty, express or implied. Blah, <insert standard disclaimer here> blah, blah…
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