FinderPop requires Mac OS 8 or 8.1, the Contextual Menus Extension, and the Appearance Extension (both of which must load before FinderPop 窶 they窶冤l do this by default unless you rename things or otherwise change the load order.)
To install FinderPop, just drop it into your Control Panels folder, or drop it onto the closed system folder icon and let the Finder autoroute it. After you restart, FinderPop should be installed.
In the FinderPop control panel, clicking the 窶彜how FinderPop Items Folder窶ｦ窶 button will bring the 窶廡inderPop Items Folder窶 frontmost, and allow you to add or remove items from the folder (and subsequently the 窶廡inderPop窶 submenu.) Control-clicking somewhere in the Finder should bring up the now FinderPop-enhanced contextual popup menu.
Unlike certain CMM plugins out there, you can be as organised or as disorganised as you like inside the 窶廡inderPop Items Folder窶. Rather than re-invent the wheel, I窶况e deliberately left out things like setting/getting file types/creators; if you need this functionality, it makes more sense to drop an alias to 窶彜etItsType窶, 窶廡ile Buddy窶 or 窶廡ileTyper窶 into the 窶廡inderPop Items Folder窶, and let that application look after such things 窶 and a lot more besides. For example: you want the ability to Stuff the Finder Selection? Add an alias to 窶廛ropStuff窶 to the 窶廡inderPop Items Folder窶, select your files in the Finder, Control-click on the last file in your selection, choose 窶廛ropStuff窶 from the resulting FinderPop submenu, and Bob窶冱 your mother窶冱 brother.
This is all harder to describe than to do. Just put FinderPop into your Control Panels folder, reboot, place a few items in the 窶廡inderPop Items Folder窶, and give it a try...
FinderPop Mailing List
For want of somewhere better to put this:
Matthieu Baudoux, matthieub@skynet.be, has kindly set up *FinderPop Announce*, a read-only mailing list to which you might like to subscribe in order to receive information about the availability of new versions of FinderPop.
To subscribe, send a mail to <requests@lists.qwentes.be> with the following message in the body of your mail :
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