It's a control panel that makes cool noise when you press the mouse button or when you press a key on your keyboard.
What good is it making to me?
It makes your live at the Mac somewhat more funny...
It's a system extension, can cause it conflicts?
Clicker installs, as many extensions do, a trap patch in order to receive events from the system. This trap patches are the things in extensions and control panels that can conflict with others if they are not good programmed. Clicker has a very small trap patch. It can conflict with other extensions, but it should'nt. I activated my very long INIT row (1.5 rows on my 14" screen) and all was pretty.
Are there any side effects?
Yes, one. Can be it becomes boring to hear the click-sounds.
What Mac do i need in order to use it?
Any Macintosh, but i recommend you use a 68040 or a PowerPC-Processor.
How can i install it?
On 68K-Macs, just drop the "Clicker 68K" Control Panel in your System Extensions Folder. Then reboot. On PowerMacs, do the same but drop the "Clicker PPC" Control Panel (it contains PPC-Code wich executes much faster on PowerMacs...)
Activated:
Error:
How many RAM does it “kill”?
Not much. Around 20 KB for the sounds and the trap patch. This is'nt a memory intensive extension.
The sounds are played very slow. When i'm through with typing, the Mac is still generating sounds. The sounds are not played synchronous with my keyboard types.
Just one reason: your Mac is to slow. I play the sounds asynchronous, but can be that on some old Macs it's too slow. Three Things to make it faster:
1. Throw away some system extensions you won't need (or deactivate those you won't need often)
2. Buy more RAM. I recommend you have 8 MB real RAM installed
3. Buy a faster Mac. (but i think a Quadra 800 should be enough)
What happened when a Error Icon will be displayed?
There are only two reasons for Clicker to display a Error Icon:
1. There is not enough memory to load the sounds
2. A Sound Resource was not found
What can i do in this case?
1. Get a new copy of Clicker.
2. If this don't worked, deactivate all system extensions and control panels except Clicker. If it work then, another System Extension conflicts with Clicker.
3. Make sure you have at least 4 MB real RAM installed.
4. If nothing worked, send me Mail.
How can i customize Clicker?
This version of Clicker is built as a control panel. You can customize it by double clicking on it and then selecting the options you want. Click also on the Picture at top of the Window (displays a about box)!
If you use Clicker, please send me (E-)Mail from what you think about it. Bug reports are also welcome.
Thank you!
Thanks to Peter N Lewis <peter@mail.peter.com.au>, Jim Walker <JWWalker@aol.com> and François Pottier <pottier@dmi.ens.fr> for "ShowInitIcon" wich helps me displaying the startup icon while loading.
Tested on:
Performa 630 (with and without activated PPC-Upgrade-Card)
Mac IIcx
Mac LC
Some other tests will be performed next time. I plan to test my Program on a PowerMac 8500/120 and a 9500/150 when i have time.
-- Sorry for my pretty bad English. I'm from Switzerland, if this is an excuse for you.
Version History:
1.0 - First version (never released). Used synchronous sounds.
1.3 - Now asynchronous with SoundHelper. Was available on Info-Mac. First released version. Only for PowerMacs.
1.5 - Now without SoundHelper (wich results in a 68K Version of this, when i used SoundHelper, the Mac freezed on Startup when executing the 68K Code. Wonder why.) I allocated the sound channel myself in this version. That is'nt hard.
2.0 - Built as a control panel (thanks to Jason Larson of giving me the "push" to do it!). I had the idea in the first version, but after viewing some examples, i was confused with it and made a extension. But now, after 5 hours of late night hacking (it's 22:05 now), i got it. Cool!
