Menu Enabler is a small hack to let you select ANY menu item, even disabled ones. Just throw the INIT in your system folder and restart. This INIT should work on all Macintoshes; if it doesn’t work on yours, drop me a line (see addresses below).
The only neat thing I’ve discovered I can do with Menu Enabler (which is, in fact, the reason I wrote the program to begin with) is view my desktop by name, or kind, or small icon. If you find any other neat things (easter eggs in certain programs? don’t know of any yet...) please let me know.
Technical note #1: Don’t be surprised if programs crash when you select disabled menu items. They are, after all, disabled for a reason. All of the programs I’ve written crash if you select the disabled “Close” menu item when there are no open windows.
Technical note #2: Menu Enabler is implemented as a tail patch to MenuSelect. As any good Macintosh programmer knows, tail patches are inherently evil bits of programming which may cause mirrors to crack, noses to expand, systems to crash, etc. I haven’t encountered any problems using Menu Enabler, but Apple may decide to write the next version of system software to intentionally break this program. So be it.
Menu Enabler is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave., Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA.
CONTACTING THE AUTHOR:
All Macintosh users should feel free to contact me for any of the following reasons: reporting bugs or suggestions about Menu Enabler or any other program I’ve written; discussing the possibility of collaborating on future programming projects; discussing the virus I wrote and released (MBDF-A); discussing ways to keep potential virus-writers from becoming actual virus-writers; discussing techniques for really good backrubs.
My e-mail address is f8dy@netaxs.com. To send me e-mail anonymously, mail to an48382@anon.penet.fi. (Due to the double-blind system, you will be allocated an anonymous I.D. which will keep your identity hidden.) To send me encrypted mail, e-mail me requesting my PGP 2.3 public key. If you do not have e-mail access, my home address is 1130 Radnor Hill Road, Wayne PA, 19087-2203, USA. Obviously, it will take me much longer to reply to snail-mail; use it as a last resort.
