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- åSuggestions for Use
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- Virtual Desktop is distributed as part of a free set of cooperating
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- programs, AWOL Utilities. This section explains how Virtual Desktop can
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- xHelp on Wheels
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- Help on Wheels is an efficient and full-featured help server which displays
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- help files on behalf of client applications. The help file you are reading is
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- distributed alongside the Virtual Desktop application file as a separate
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- Help on Wheels document.
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- You can read this help at any time while using Virtual Desktop, either by
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- selecting “Virtual Desktop Help” from the Help menu, or by pressing the
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- Help or Command-? key. Alternatively, press the Help or Command-?
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- key while the machine is starting up, and release the key once you see the
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- Virtual Desktop Extension icon with a help balloon on it. The help server
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- will open to display the help file after startup is complete. This version
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- of Virtual Desktop has some support for the sophisticated features of Help
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- on Wheels, such as context-sensitivity, casual displays, and “hot”
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- hypertext buttons.
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- This help file can be stored separately from the Virtual Desktop
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- application, archived, or trashed, without affecting Virtual Desktop’s
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- xMaybe
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- Among the options of Maybe, a Finder alias enhancer, is one which lets
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- you open any other item just as the target item is being opened or printed.
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- Virtual Desktop has an option to create a very small document called a
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- door file, whose name matches the name of a door. Opening a door file
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- from Finder is another way to open the door.
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- If you have an alias to a document or application which you might like to
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- work on in a preset location on the virtual desktop, Maybe can convert
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- that alias, attaching the door file as the item to open first. Then,
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- whenever you open the converted alias, whose icon looks like the original,
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- Maybe and Virtual Desktop co-operate to scroll the virtual desktop to the
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- “right” location for that target item, then open it.
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- Menu Events is a small, single-purpose system extension which lets any
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- program send Apple events to most high-level-event-aware applications
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- having a menu bar. These “Menu events” let you query the contents and
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- state of the application’s menus, then select a menu command and tell the
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- target application to do it.
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- Virtual Desktop is a useful target for a Menu event, because it has many
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- menu commands, and no scripting interface. Any action you can do using
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- Virtual Desktop menus can be instigated by any application which can send
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- an Apple event, such as Maybe.
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- NOTE: Menu Events is intended for Macintosh programmers and those
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- familiar with Apple event scripting. If your favorite archive site does not
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- have Menu Events and its companion application Menu Grabber, you may
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- request a copy from the author at the addresses listed above.
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