“Extension List” lists each extension by name as your computer starts up, so that you can identify the extensions by name rather than by a cryptic icon as they load. All extensions and control panels that load after “Extension List” are displayed.
“Extension List” should be especially useful to users whose macs are heavily loaded with extensions, by minimizing the startup screen clutter caused by ten’s of extension icons.
The list of extension names is displayed in a window at the lower left hand side of the screen. The extension icons which are normally displayed can be "fixed" in one position, allowed to display as usual in a list, or scrolled along the bottom of the screen.
The execution time (in seconds) of each extension is displayed next to each extension. The cumulative startup time is displayed in the lower right hand side of the “Extension List” window.
Extension List” is sold as shareware. See the Payment section for details.
INSTALLATION
System Requirements: System 6 or later; All Macintosh computers, including PowerMacs.
The “Extension List” package includes:
1) “Extension List” Docs (This document)
2) “Extension List” (A control panel)
3) Run “Extension List”
System 7: Drag Extension List and Run “Extension List” onto your System Folder. This action will place “Extension List” in the Control Panels folder, and Run “Extension List” in the Extensions folder.
Technical Note: Run “Extension List” causes the “Extension List” control panel to execute as one of the first extensions, since items in the Extension Folder load first. It is not essential to “Extension List”. You may instead put “Extension List” in the extensions folder and, by prepending spaces to its name, cause it to be one of the first extensions to execute at startup.
System 6: Put “Extension List” into your System Folder.
To ensure “Extension List” loads first and displays all your extensions, add spaces before its name, for example: “ Extension List” . Run “Extension List” is not useful under system 6 but will function correctly if installed.
OTHER FEATURES
To Slow (delay) the display and execution of each extension, hit the 's' key. Hit the 's' key a second time to resume at normal speed.
To Pause prior to the execution of each extension, hit the 'p' key. Hit the 'p' key a second time to resume.
For Programmers: If you have macsbug installed, hitting the 'p' key will create a debugger break prior to a jsr() into the next extension.
PAYMENT
This software product is sold as Shareware. Your payment allows for future revisions of this software and for development of other software products by this author. Please support the shareware honor system.
Payment can be made through CompuServe’s shareware registration program "GO SWREG", ID#7070, for a $1 discount, or by check† for US$11 payable to “David Giandomenico” and sending it to:
David Giandomenico, Extension List
734 NW 177 Avenue
Pembroke Pines 33029-3152 FL USA
As a courtesy service, you can receive a floppy disk containing “Extension List” for an additional $8 ($19 total) to cover shipping and handling worldwide.
†Florida Residents please include sales tax. For registration by post outside the U.S.A., Traveler’s Cheques may be your most economical way to send US currency. Please note that any change cannot be returned. Credit Cards are not accepted.
Site registrations are available for a 40% discount. Please contact David Giandomenico by post or e-mail.
AUTHORS'S CONTACT INFORMATION
Please send your questions, comments, suggestions and payments to:
David Giandomenico, Extension List
734 NW 177 Avenue
Pembroke Pines FL 33029-3152 USA
e-mail:
CompuServe:100016,1053
Internet: 100016.1053@CompuServe.com
OR D. Giandomenico@IEEE.org (forwarded to CompuServe address)
DISTRIBUTION
This software may be freely distributed electronically or on media (e.g. BBS's, CD's etc.), for the cost of distribution. This documentation must be included with the “Extension List” software.
WHERE TO FIND “Extension List”
“Extension List" is currently distributed on Compuserve as:
"ExList.sea" in the Control Panels section of the MacOS forum,
and on internet infomac mirrors:
./system.extensions/cdev/extensionlist1.0.hqx
KEYWORDS: (for searching on BBB's)
Extension List Control Panel Startup Reboot Restart INIT icon
LEGAL AGREEMENT
This software is sold “as is”. By using this software, you agree to release the author of any and all liability and for any damages, howsoever incurred.
COMPATIBILITY WITH STARTUP MANAGERS
Extension List has been thoroughly tested by independent testers, and should cause no conflicts with other software. Extension List does not change any System software which could result in any degradation of your Macintosh's performance.
However, Extension List's features may overlap or compete with other System Extensions, most notably Startup Managers that control the placement of icons during startup. With a few ajustments, most of these managers will work agreeably with Extension List:
•“Extension Manager” - No issues.
•“Now Startup Manager” - “Now Startup Manager” augments icon display features by allowing icons to be wrapped. To wrap icons, set "Wrap Icons" in Now Startup Manager and set the icon display options of “Extension List” to "List Icons". To scroll icons, turn off "Wrap Icons" in Now Startup Manager and set the icon display options of “Extension List” to "Scroll Icons".
•“Confict Catcher” - When “Conflict Catcher” is installed, “Conflict Catcher” controls the display of icons. Set the icon display options of “Extension List” to "List Icons" to let “Conflict Catcher” have complete control.
•“Iconwrap” & “Iconwrap II” - To allow icons to be wrapped, set the icon display options of “Extension List” to "List Icons".
FAQ’s (Frequently Asked Questions):
Q) The icons write over each other and some appear so briefly that I can’t identify them. Can the icons be shown longer?
A) You can slow them down by pressing the 's' key. However, this cannot be the normal mode of operation, because it slows down the startup process. The problem is aggravated by the fact that many extensions only show their icon after they have finished executing, so that their icons appears very briefly.
Alternatively you can “scroll” the icons, or allow them to display normally. Open the “Extension List” control panel to select either "List Icons" or "Scroll Icons".
Q) Is “Extension List” an extension conflict-catcher?
A) No. The objective of “Extension List” is to reduce the clutter of extension icons on the startup screen, and to provide a clearer identity of each extension as it loads, without slowing down the computer startup sequence. It does identify the currently executing extension, even if the extension has not yet displayed an icon - something which most conflict catchers fail to do!
Q) Can you suppress the display of icons?
A) Not with the current version of “Extension List”†.
Q) Can the extensions execution times be saved in a file?
A) Not with the current version of “Extension List”†.
†If this software is well supported by payment of shareware fees, later versions of “Extension List” may include the following features:
•Execution statistics of extensions and control panels saved to a file.
•Suppression of all icons.
•Icon Wrapping.
•Your suggestions?!
You are encouraged to send comments & suggestions for this or future software products to the author!
Acknowledgements
Special thanks to all my beta testers, especially Malcolm Cornelius and Phillip Pessar, and to my wife, Jean C. Chang, for her patience thoughout this project.
