Version 1.8.4   Tuesday 21 December 1999 — The “Patch In Time Saves 9” Version
                                                                                                             
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Hello and welcome to the slightly better organised manual, formed by taking the old ReadMe and banging at it with a piece of two-by-four. Complaints, clarifications, bugs, omissions, rephrasings of my tenebrous and deathless — if only for sheer turgidity — prose all welcome at turly@finderpop.com. 

See also the webpage at http://www.finderpop.com

                                                                                                             NEWS
I am moving from Cork to California in January 2000 (no, not on January 1.)  Therefore I will no longer have a snail-mail address and email contact will be sporadic at best for a month or so.  Bear with me while I complete this 6000-mile move and please don’t send me emails until I get back online!  Thanks!
--turly

1.8.4 includes:

• Fixes MacOS 9 StuffIt Problems
• Displays Custom Icons (a new popup menu in Appearance subpanel)
• Handles Compiled AppleScripts better (Thanks, Leonard Rosenthol)
• And, err, it does a hierarchical Apple menu too (the code for this has been there for over a year, I decided to enable it for this release.  It’s been working fine here since September 1998, but your mileage may vary :-) As usual, you’ll have to turn on the HAM mode in FinderPop’s Behaviour subpanel. I think FP offers a better “Apple Menu Enhancement”user experience than Apple Menu Options (not as good as BeHierarchic, but hey, FP is free!)
• The Info command (Cmd-Opt while looking at a FinderPop menu) now works for directories and disks too
• Uses MacOS 9 FSGetCatalogInfoBulk for faster FileSystem iteration
• Sort FinderPop menus representing folders by Name, Date Modified, FoldersFirst or AppsFirst, set by the popup menu in FinderPop’s Appearance subpanel.
    (If you wish, you can override the default setting for a particular folder by creating a file or folder inside the folder called one of:

      '    Sort by Name'
      '    Sort by Date'
      '    Sort Folders & Apps'
      '    Sort Apps & Folders'

   will set the sorting for that folder (and won't show up itself.) This file/folder must be the FIRST file/folder alphabetically speaking in the directory, hence the 4 spaces at the start of the name.  Klunky, but it works :-)  I will eventually get around to adding the option to sort via whatever "Icon View" method you've used in the Finder.
The 'FinderPop Items Folder' sort order defaults to 'Sort By Name' (unless you override it as described here.)
• Application-specific items: items ending in 'CRTR!!!!', where 'CRTR' is the 4-char code for the app, will only appear in FP menus when that app is frontmost.  I use this to set up aliases to various source files for MPW, for example -- clicking in the menubar while MPW is frontmost brings up a FinderPop menu which lists these items, but they don't clutter up the FinderPop menus when I'm not using MPW. (For example, I have "00)Compiler Source MPS !!!!" in my FP Items folder -- the '00)' moves the item to the top of the menu and 'MPS ' is the creator code for MPW Shell.)
• Numerous minor and not-so-minor bugfixes

The rest of this manual is basically untouched since last time.  One of these days I’ll have to get around to rewriting it from scratch in HTML or something.