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- From: L.H.Wood@lut.ac.uk
- Subject: Re: HELP: I need a utility that will quit an app after idle time
- Message-ID: <1992Dec27.153345.22629@lut.ac.uk>
- Reply-To: L.H.Wood@lut.ac.uk (Lloyd Wood)
- Organization: Loughborough University, UK.
- References: <1992Dec27.051111.28088@wam.umd.edu>
- Date: Sun, 27 Dec 92 15:33:45 GMT
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- This will do what you require, but is a tad complicated. It relies on the
- synergy of a number of shareware utilities working together.
- Works for me.
-
- Use After Dark. Get the shareware PowerDown 1.0 module by Dan Walkowski.
- This issues a shutdown command after a user-configurable amount of time.
- Install this as your screensaver, or as one of the screensavers you use
- under multimodule.
-
- Get Okey Dokey control panel 1.01, also by Dan Walkowski (and friend).
- This thumps the default (outlined) button after a user-configurable
- time. Used so that all documents are saved (the default) when the
- shutdown command is issued.
-
- Get Shutdown Delay 1.28, by Alessandro Levi Montalcini. This puts up
- a shutdown/restart/cancel dialog for a user-configurable amount of
- time before shutting down.
-
- So with all this in place, you leave the Mac, the screensaver kicks in
- and times inactivity, and eventually issues a shutdown command to all
- apps. All documents are saved (the defualt button according to Apple
- guidelines) and the Mac sits at the Shutdown Delay screen until you
- get back, when you wake it up and press cancel.
-
- Note - after hitting cancel, only the Finder is running, and any
- startup apps (particularly invisible appe's such as Apollo's Eagle
- will be off. This doesn't affecty most people.
-
- Cumbersome - yes. Fiddly - yes. But having your Mac power itself off
- is rather neat. Anybody know something more sophisticated (using
- AppleEvents, say) to do what this guy really wants?
-
- L.H.Wood@uk.ac.lut
-
-