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From: [e-mail] (Keith Barkley)
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Subject: Re: What I want from new Workbench
Date: 19 Mar 1996 14:32:33 GMT
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In article <4ik0od$[e-mail]>
[e-mail] (Byron Montgomerie) writes:

> The only thing about that is that it is only used to go BACK to an already
> running application, there is no way of starting an app quickly from the
> menu and unless you use toolsdaemon you can only use one menu strip.  It is
> time the os did this, from version 1.3 of the os and up people have been
> hacking in solutions to do it.

This isn't entirely true.  I wrote a little application
that puts up an AppMenuItem and then Waits for the menu
item to be selected.  When it is selected it launches a new
shell.  Though you could start any program.  It is only a
few Kbytes and does nothing that I do not want it to.


Keith Barkley
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