FinderPop requires a Power Macintosh running Mac OS 8.0, 8.1 or 8.5, the Contextual Menus Extension, and the Appearance Extension (both of which must load before FinderPop ΓÇö theyΓÇÖll do this by default unless you rename things or otherwise change the load order.)
UPDATE 3-Sep-98: Yves Anciant suggests that Apple Menu Options must load before FinderPop; this will probably only apply to countries like France where AMO is known as ΓÇ£Options Menu PommeΓÇ¥ and so will load after FinderPop. Renaming it to ΓÇ£AOptions Menu PommeΓÇ¥ solved YvesΓÇÖ problems; you could also rename ΓÇ£FinderPopΓÇ¥ to ΓÇ£zzFinderPopΓÇ¥.
To install FinderPop, just drop it into your Control Panels folder, or drop it onto the closed system folder icon and let the Finder autoroute it. After you restart, FinderPop should be installed.
In the FinderPop control panel, clicking the “Show FinderPop Items Folder…” button in the “FinderPop Items” subpane will bring the “FinderPop Items Folder” frontmost, and allow you to add or remove items from the folder (and subsequently the “FinderPop” submenu.) Control-clicking somewhere in the Finder should bring up the now FinderPop-enhanced contextual popup menu.
Unlike certain CMM plugins out there, you can be as organised or as disorganised as you like inside the ΓÇ£FinderPop Items FolderΓÇ¥. Rather than re-invent the wheel, IΓÇÖve deliberately left out things like setting/getting file types/creators; if you need this functionality, it makes more sense to drop an alias to ΓÇ£SetItsTypeΓÇ¥, ΓÇ£File BuddyΓÇ¥ or ΓÇ£FileTyperΓÇ¥ into the ΓÇ£FinderPop Items FolderΓÇ¥, and let that application look after such things ΓÇö and a lot more besides. For example: you want the ability to Stuff the Finder Selection? Add an alias to ΓÇ£DropStuffΓÇ¥ to the ΓÇ£FinderPop Items FolderΓÇ¥, select your files in the Finder, Control-click on the last file in your selection, choose ΓÇ£DropStuffΓÇ¥ from the resulting FinderPop submenu, and BobΓÇÖs your motherΓÇÖs brother.
This is all harder to describe than to do. Just put FinderPop into your Control Panels folder, reboot, place a few (aliases to) items in the ΓÇ£FinderPop Items FolderΓÇ¥, and give it a lash...
FinderPop Mailing List
For want of somewhere better to put this:
Matthieu Baudoux, matthieub@skynet.be, has kindly set up *FinderPop Announce*, a read-only mailing list to which you might like to subscribe in order to receive information about the availability of new versions of FinderPop.
Subscribing to FinderPop Announce
Send an email to <mailto:finderpop-on@lists.qwentes.be>
Unsbscribing from FinderPop Announce
Send an email to <mailto:finderpop-off@lists.qwentes.be>
If youΓÇÖre a member of this list, youΓÇÖll get the opportunity to try out beta versions of FinderPop before release to the general public. You can:
ΓÇó Gibber uncontrollably as your Mac crashes with a variety of cacophonous noises!
ΓÇó Goggle in awe as the new FinderPop beta completely stuffs your System!
ΓÇó Cackle maniacally as you experience strange Macsbug messages!
You get my drift. Only for the brave or the foolhardy.
