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- The Mercutio MDEF is a Menu DEFinition resource that allow developers to easily
- and elegantly extend the power of their application menus. These MDEFs allow
- menus to have multiple-modifier key-equivalents (e.g. shift-command-C),
- custom icons, item callbacks, and other goodies.
-
- Major feature additions and changes since 1.1.5 are:
-
- - Support for non-printing keys (function keys, page up/down,
- arrow keys, etc)
- - Support for icon suites
- - Support for all 4 modifier keys (command, shift, option, control)
- - Removed command-key requirement (can have control-A as an equivalent)
- - User-definable style mapping: developer determines which style
- bits are used as feature flags
- - Dynamic items: items whose contents change depending on what
- modifier keys are being held down (e.g. when the option key is
- down, Save becomes Save All).
- - Application callback routine to let you decide on the fly what
- the item contents should be.
-
- As before, Mercutio includes:
-
- - System 7's Balloon Help and True Gray.
- - Color menus.
- - Small and large icons.
- - SICNs in hierarchical menu items.
- - 99% compatible with standard MDEF: the only thing Mercutio
- doesn't do is support the "condense" and "extended" character
- styles.
-
- The Mercutio MDEF works under System 6.0.4 or later, with or without
- Color QuickDraw. Mercutio is fully compatible with System 7, and supports
- all the features of the system MDEF. Integrating the MDEF into your program
- is easy, and shouldn't take more than 15 minutes.
-
- Licensing
- =========
- Developers may use Mercutio free of charge as long as they give me
- credit and send me a copies of the final program (including future
- upgrades for as long as they use the MDEF.) Other licensing terms are
- available.
-
- Mercutio is copyright (c) 1992-1994 by Ramon M. Felciano
-
- Ramon Felciano felciano@camis.stanford.edu
- Digital Alchemy
- 9/29/94
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