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Persistence/DeskClock
More than two years ago, a friend and I created bit images which look like
raised pieces of the gray desktop. The idea was to make a clock that is
built into the desk. In the months since then, we figured out what was
necessary to do it, and it involved a bunch of patching. We had to patch
QuickDraw to watch while the Finder drew icons so that we could avoid
writing over them. Allan Foster wanted to keep his ShowINIT icons visible
after some nasty one (AppleShare, perhaps?) called InitWindows.
Surprisingly enough, the two hacks (we dubbed Allan's "Persistence")
needed almost exactly the same code. We merged them and the happy results
are on the Hacks disk.
LaserWriter Prep
Tech. Note 31 is an exciting discussion of every aspect of Clarus, the
DogCow. One mentioned in particular is the "wrong way" to show him. (The
likeness of Scott "ZZ" Zimmerman, printing guru in Apple DTS is the wrong
way!) Ed Tecot, Nevin Liber, and Darin Adler decided that DTS deserved the
"wrong way" on their machines. We developed code and graphics to change
the holy image of the DogCow into the classic Mac-a-Mug appearance of ZZ
himself. This code was all written after midnight on April 3rd. We
installed it on all the machines in DTS that morning before 5 AM. All the
files were dated April 1st; we hope the folks in DTS appreciated it. Ha,
ha.
PS: ZZ was the first one to see it.
Darin Adler