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- From: keith@taligent.com (Keith Rollin)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
- Subject: Re: ShowINIT
- Message-ID: <BtKGDs.K45@taligent.com>
- Date: 26 Aug 92 01:05:52 GMT
- References: <1992Aug25.225333.2882@cs.cornell.edu>
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- In article <1992Aug25.225333.2882@cs.cornell.edu>, csuley@cs.cornell.edu
- (Christopher Suley) writes:
- >
- > I have written an extension/Control Panel and would, of course, like
- > for its little icon to march along the bottom of the screen at
- > startup time (user-configurable, of course!). I know that there is
- > some 'standard' code around by Paul Mercer (?) called ShowINIT that
- > does this. I snagged a copy of that out of Macintosh Programming
- > Primer volume 2, and hacked it a little so that it will display an
- > icl4 or icl8 icon on color screens, depending on their depth.
- > However, this code seems to assume that all of a user's icons will fit
- > in one row, which they don't always.
- >
- > Is there a version of ShowINIT around that properly handles multiple
- > rows and color icons? If so, where can I get my grubby paws on a copy?
- >
-
- Fran
- ois Grieu made a bunch of changes to ShowINIT a couple of years ago. From
- the header:
-
- This particular variation :
- - knows how to wrap around the screen, for thoose with many inits; this only
- works with cooperating ShowINITs
- - draw from ICN#/icl4/icl8 combos, now the standard for icons; the best
- source is choosen according to main screen pixel depth and available
- resources
- - does NOT support the ToldU cicn resources
- - displays a nice empty square if no valid ICN# is present (new feature)
- - has been rewritten for extreme compactness: shrinked from 964 to 500 bytes,
- while lot of error prevention and checking was added.
- - is heavily commented, hopefuly compensating much of the obfuscation
- introduced.
-
- I think you can get it from ftp.apple.com, but I'm not sure, since I can't seem
- to connect to it right now. There's also a comment in the heading of the file
- that it's on AppleLink.
-
- --
- Keith Rollin
- Phantom Programmer
- Taligent, Inc.
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