¥ Shorty is the NON-Colour version. SE, Classic etc.
¥ Shorty II is the 'Colour' version, still beta, sorry.
¥ Shorty III has no moving parts, almost.
Although 2 of the 3 clocks show the time on their screens the best way to get the time and date is to just click on the icon.
and a System Extension ? ( TYPE: appe ).
¥ Shorty V is a System Extension that changes the second and third items of the Applications menu that appears at the top right hand corner. Item 2 will become the Time and item 3 will be the date. I rarely use these items and while writing the other versions of Shorty I was looking for a place to put the time that didn't add to the menubar or clash with the way other items, like screen savers, and this seemed like a good place. So all that happens is that Shorty V keeps changing the text that appears in the menu, if you hold down the Option key and wait a second then the original Menu items will appear. N.B. the items still operate in the same way, it's just the text that is changed.
Before Shorty V it looked like this:
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After Shorty V it looks like this:
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Early versions of Shorty had an incorrect BNDL resource, no chashes, just messy.
Shorty, Shorty II, Shorty III and Shorty V are:
¥ copyright Paul B Jones
¥ All Rights reserved.
¥ Shareware, Ha, ha, ha,
Much thanks to the few who paid money, and received disks, please send return the original disks for FREE updates.
$30 for 3 disks of original software, soon to be 4 disks.
Paul B Jones
P.O. box 208
Moora 6510
Western Australia
Much thanks to Paul Mercer, who wrote the INIT code that brings up the Icon at Start up time. ref ShowINIT.
