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have Menu Events and its companion application Menu Grabber, you may
familiar with Apple event scripting. If your favorite archive site does not
NOTE: Menu Events is intended for Macintosh programmers and those
an Apple event, such as Maybe.
Virtual Desktop menus can be instigated by any application which can send
menu commands, and no scripting interface. Any action you can do using
Virtual Desktop is a useful target for a Menu event, because it has many
target application to do it.
state of the application’s menus, then select a menu command and tell the
having a menu bar. These “Menu events” let you query the contents and
program send Apple events to most high-level-event-aware applications
Menu Events is a small, single-purpose system extension which lets any
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“right” location for that target item, then open it.
Maybe and Virtual Desktop co-operate to scroll the virtual desktop to the
whenever you open the converted alias, whose icon looks like the original,
that alias, attaching the door file as the item to open first. Then,
work on in a preset location on the virtual desktop, Maybe can convert
If you have an alias to a document or application which you might like to
from Finder is another way to open the door.
door file, whose name matches the name of a door. Opening a door file
Virtual Desktop has an option to create a very small document called a
you open any other item just as the target item is being opened or printed.
Among the options of Maybe, a Finder alias enhancer, is one which lets
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routine operation.
application, archived, or trashed, without affecting Virtual Desktop’s
This help file can be stored separately from the Virtual Desktop
hypertext buttons.
on Wheels, such as context-sensitivity, casual displays, and “hot”
of Virtual Desktop has some support for the sophisticated features of Help
will open to display the help file after startup is complete. This version
Virtual Desktop extension icon with a help balloon on it. The help server
key while the machine is starting up, and release the key once you see the
Help or Command-? key. Alternatively, press the Help or Command-?
selecting “Virtual Desktop Help” from the Help menu, or by pressing the
You can read this help at any time while using Virtual Desktop, either by
Help on Wheels document.
distributed alongside the Virtual Desktop application file as a separate
help files on behalf of client applications. The help file you are reading is
Help on Wheels is an efficient and full-featured help server which displays
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work in conjunction with the other programs.
programs, AWOL Utilities. This section explains how Virtual Desktop can
Virtual Desktop is distributed as part of a free set of cooperating
åSuggestions for Use
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