HigherMenus is an INIT that will allow you to ╥tear╙ hierarchical menus from the parent menu and place it into the menu bar. This allows some degree of customization in an application with hierarchical menus. If there are particular hierarchical menus that you use a lot, HigherMenus can save you a bit of wrist action.
HigherMenus has a cdev portion so you may specify which key combination will bring the hierarchical menu into the menubar. Changes will not occur until you restart your Macintosh. The scrolling credits at the bottom of the cdev are asynchronous, ie, you can make changes to your settings while the credits continue to scroll. Don╒t wait for the credits to stop before you make changes, because it will never stop.
To bring a hierarchical menu into the menubar, hold down the proper keys while selecting the menu item that is the parent of the hierarchical menu you want to detach. To remove a hierarchical menu from the menu bar, hold down the activation keys and click the title of the menu you want to remove. In either case, you can still access the hierarchical menu the normal way.
Compatibilty Notes
HigherMenus has been tested on a Macintosh 512K Enhanced, Plus, SE, II, and IIx. It works under MultiFinder unless you tear off the hierDA Control Panel menu. HigherMenus does some very strange things with Master Juggler. If you use Master Juggler, don╒t use HigherMenus. Better yet, use HigherMenus and don╒t use Master Juggler╔
Shareware Fee and Distribution
HigherMenus is a Shareware program. If you use it, you must send me $5, or delete the program. You may distribute HigherMenus freely as long as you include this file and do not modify HigherMenus or this document.
Mail the $5 to:
Dean Yu
20 Krebs Rd.
Plainsboro, NJ 08536
Sorry, I can only accept checks. Site licenses can be negotiated.
If you send in the fee, I will mail you any updates free of charge, and I might toss in some other programs that I╒m working on at the time. At any rate, do drop me a note if you have comments or suggestions for future release of HigherMenus
Reporting bugs.
PLEASE! If you find a problem, tell me so I can look into it! I╒ve had many people test this program for me over the past month, and many problems have been corrected, but that doesn╒t mean that every problem has been fixed! You can send me mail at the above address, or, if you have access to the Internet, you can send mail to mystone@sol.engin.umich.edu, and I will respond.
Legal stuff
HigherMenus is copyrighted 1989 by Dean Yu and Starship Enterprises.
It may not be distributed in any modified form, nor without this file.
HigherMenus may not be sold, nor can it be used as an enticement to buy another product unless you clear it with me.
Acknowledgments
Thanks to Mike Neil who has been the source of many neat ideas. I╒ve found that it╒s easier to write a program than it is to come up with an idea for a program. With Mike around, I can concentrate on the easy stuff while he can spout off the ideas.
Thanks also to my beta testers: Steve Bollinger, Dave Falkenburg, Pam Ho, Mike Neil, Ace Swerling, and Dave Walker. Thanks for all the sleepless nights, guys╔
