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- Tonto provides a way to hide applications from the casual user. You
- configure a copy of Tonto for each application you wish to hide and
- then you make the application invisible (using ResEdit, for example).
- Tonto itself remains visible, with the application's icon. You rename
- each copy of Tonto to match its original application's name. If the
- original application is in the same folder as Tonto, you will need to
- change Tonto's name slightly. For example, if the application were
- "Microsoft Word", you might rename Tonto to "Microsoft Word 4.0".
-
- If the user double-clicks on Tonto, it does nothing but launch the
- original application. If the user double-clicks on a document from the
- application, the Finder launches the invisible application directly,
- without using Tonto.
-
- To configure Tonto, first make a copy and work only with it. Launch
- the copy of Tonto. Click on the "Build..." button and use the standard
- techniques to select the application you wish to hide. Press the
- "Done" button. Now double-click on the Tonto copy and make sure the
- correct application gets launched.
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- If you need to reconfigure Tonto, hold down the mouse after you launch it.
-
- Once Tonto is configured correctly, you should make the configuration
- permanent by launching it again, holding the mouse down, and pressing
- the "Perm" button. Thereafter, Tonto ignores the mouse when it is
- launched, so the configuration cannot be changed.
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- At this point, you can use ResEdit to make the application invisible.
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- Tonto was written by Greg Coleman and greatly modified by Dale Talcott.
- Tonto and its sources are dedicated to the public domain.
-
- For more information, email to Dale Talcott, aeh@cc.purdue.edu.
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