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- About Sequencer…
-
- Sequencer is a handy little program designed to launch a series of other
- programs, with or without accompanying documents. In typical use, you
- modify its STR# resources to hold the names of the programs you want to
- run.
-
- One interesting use Red Ryder Host sysops might find for Sequencer is as
- an "aliasing" program: if you're worrried that some weird Host utility
- author might require that Host be called Red Ryder Host, RR Host or
- Second Sight, no problem: just set up Sequencer to launch Host as its
- next application. If you're paranoid, make copies of this Sequencer, and
- name them Red Ryder Host, RR Host and Second Sight. Now, regardless of
- how anyone is apt to label Host, Sequencer will make sure it gets
- launched properly.
-
- What follows is the original documentation for Sequencer by its author,
- Darin Adler.
-
- Sequencer
- by Darin Adler
- April 10, 1986
-
- Sequencer is a small application for the Mac that serves a simple
- purpose. With Sequencer, you can set up a number of applications to run
- in a row. For example, if you have a number of short programs which you
- would like to run every time you boot the Mac, you can set up Sequencer
- to run those programs and make Sequencer the "Set Startup" application.
-
- Sequencer can be configured with ResEdit. Open the STR# resource (STR#
- resource 128) in the resource editor. This resource contains a list of
- the documents and applications that you want to run, in the order you
- want to run them. Each string in the list has the following meaning:
-
- If it is a disk or folder name, without a filename, Sequencer's default
- directory is changed to that disk or folder. (Sequencer's default
- directory at first is the disk or folder that Sequencer is in.)
-
- If it is the filename of a System file, Sequencer switches to that
- System (without changing it's default directory).
-
- If it is the filename of an application, Sequencer runs that
- application, and when the application is done, it returns to Sequencer.
-
- If it is the filename of any other file, Sequencer sets that file up as
- a document for the next application in the list.
-
- Any of the filenames can have disk or folder names attached to it, but
- Sequencer's default directory will not change. Here are some sample
- lists:
-
- Tools:SortMenu The application "SortMenu" from a disk named "Tools"
- WayStation The application "WayStation" from the disk with
- Sequencer on it.
-
- EUA A document on the disk with Sequencer on it.
- TMON The application "TMON" from the same disk; it gets passed EUA as
- a document.
- Keeper The application "Keeper", also on the same disk.
-
- HyperDrive: Switch to my HFS HyperDrive drawer.
- :Toys:MyToy The application "MyToy" from a folder called "toys".
- :Serious:Stuff: Switch to a folder called "Stuff" which is inside a
- folder called "Serious".
- Taxes Choose a document for the integrated program, "Blues"
- from the "Stuff" folder.
- Tax Report Choose another document from the same folder.
- :::Dufus:Blues Run the integrated program from the "Dufus" folder (at
- the top level) with both of the above documents.
-
- To build the list of applications from ResEdit, select the "*****" that
- is between the string items and use the New, Cut, Copy, Paste and Clear
- commands to insert, delete and move items.
-
- Since there are many different uses for Sequencer, you can make custom
- "sequencers" for any purpose. Simply duplicate the Sequencer icon in the
- Finder, rename the copy, and edit the STR# resource.
-
- Sequencer will not work with SkipFinder and also will not work with
- Keeper (except if Keeper is the last application in a list of
- applications and Sequencer is not used again after Keeper is installed).
-