Alessandro Levi Montalcini
C.so Re Umberto 10
10121 Torino
Italy
e-mail: lmontalcini@pmn.it

MenuBall 2.01 documentation - July 1994

• Introduction
◊  MenuBall is an absolutely useless control panel that puts a bouncing ball in your menu bar. It won't slow down your Mac and it shouldn't crash (but use it at your own risk). Should the ball ever leave a mark in your menu bar, don’t panic: it is harmless, just switch to another application to have the menu bar redrawn properly.

• Instructions
◊  On/Off hot key lets you choose a key combination that will turn the menu ball on and off on the fly.
◊  Enable gravity acceleration changes the way the ball bounces around.
◊  Make menu ball larger gives you a bigger ball.
◊  Move menu ball faster makes the ball speedier.
◊  Show icon at startup tells MenuBall to show its icon when the mac starts up.
◊  Note: the ball speed depends mostly on the application you're using. When a dialog window is open, the ball will usually run a lot faster.

• Distribution
◊  MenuBall is free. You may give it away to your friends, post it on BBS's or include it in any non-commercial stuff you can possibly think of, as long as the control panel and documentation is not modified in any way. If you really like MenuBall, send me a postcard. You may include suggestions or bug reports if you want to.

• Special Considerations
◊  If you can bear MenuBall for more than half an hour, you've earned it.

• Version History
◊  2.01 - Recompiled with latest version of the compiler and updated documentation.
◊  2.0 - Rewritten from scratch for Owen W. Linzmayer and his new book.
◊  1.0 - First cut as a simple extension.