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- From: engber@ils.nwu.edu (Mike Engber)
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- Subject: source to Flip A BNDL available
- Summary: free source code
- Message-ID: <1992Sep2.160343.29191@ils.nwu.edu>
- Date: 2 Sep 92 16:03:43 GMT
- References: <1992Sep1.145611.1@uwovax.uwo.ca>
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- Organization: The Institute for the Learning Sciences
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- I've made the source Flip A BNDL 1.0 (THINK C 5.0x) available
- for anonymous ftp from:
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- engber@aristotle.ils.nwu.edu (129.105.100.1)
- path: pub/engber/flab.c.hqx
-
- There are misc other things in there you may find useful as well.
- I'm willing to email the .hqx to those without ftp access.
-
- Flip A BNDL was my MacHack entry (so if you have the CD, there's
- no need to ftp) It's a harmless prank. It flips an application's
- Finder icons.
-
- No modification is made to the file itself, just to the copies
- of the icons stored by the Finder. Undo by flipping a 2nd time
- or rebuilding the DeskTop.
-
- I didn't really think the source to Flip A BNDL would be that useful,
- but recently I've been finding it addresses a lot of FAQ's. So I'm
- announcing its availablity.
-
- Among other things, the source covers:
-
- - Accepting Finder drags&drops + handles a launch from a drag&drop differently
- from a lauch by double clicking.
-
- - Setting the stack size. (someone just asked about that)
-
- - Handles the core AE's. (well, actually the pdoc handler doesn't print)
-
- - Shows how to kill & restart the Finder. Basically, all you do is send a
- quit AE, but here are some undocumented tricks you need to do.
-
- - Shows that a '????' BNDL entry lets an app only accept drags and drop
- from APPLs. This is undocumented as far as I know. It's necessary because
- the APPL BNDL entry is used to specify the app's icon.
-
- - Shows what I empirically found to be the minimum menu setup to get Balloon
- Help to work with the dialogs. I've not seen this documented anywhere. If
- anyone knows more about it - please let me know.
-
- -ME
-