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- “READ ME” for Pink Slip, version 1.0
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- Copyright © 1992 Robert Gibson. All rights reserved.
- January 14, 1992
- Font: Geneva 12
-
- This document must go wherever Pink Slip goes. Please do not distribute
- Pink Slip without this documentation. Please do not modify this document.
-
- INTRODUCTION
- =============
- This document contains information about Pink Slip, a Control Panel by
- Robert Gibson. Information specific to Pink Slip is given in “Using
- Pink Slip”. Information about the author is provided in the last section,
- “About the Author”.
-
- USING PINK SLIP
- ===============
- These sections are fairly detailed descriptions of how and why you may
- use Pink Slip. It does not necessarily describe the only ways you can use
- the program.
-
- • If you use Pink Slip, please please please send me a note. I love to
- hear from users of my software. My addresses (post and e-mail) are
- given below in “About the Author”.
-
- What Does Pink Slip Do?
- ----------------------
- • Pink Slip allows you to add a Quit menu item to the Finder for use
- in those memory-intense situations. You can also remove the item if
- you don’t like it any more. It Does the trick described on p. 266 of
- Feb/92 MacUser a bit more elegantly and without the need of “honing
- your ResEdit skills.” Pink Slip also provides a means of quitting the
- Finder without modifying anything.
-
- Using Pink Slip
- --------------
- • Pink Slip requires System 7.0 or higher to function.
-
- • Double-click on the Pink Slip icon to open the Control Panel window.
-
- • To install a Quit menu item in a Finder’s File menu, click “Install...”.
- To remove the Quit menu item, click “Remove...”.
- To Quit immediately from the Finder without making any changes, click
- “Quit now”. You should also use the Quit now button to quit from the
- current Finder after you make changes (i.e. after installing or removing
- a Quit menu item in the current Finder). The Quit now button causes the
- Finder to exit gracefully. This is the safest way to quit from the Finder,
- since it quits using the same technique as the Quit menu item, but
- doesn’t involve changing the Finder.
-
- • Balloon help is supported by Pink Slip.
-
- • Although Pink Slip is a Control Panel, it does not have to be in the
- Control Panels folder to function properly.
-
- • If an error occurs while using Pink Slip, you will see an appropriate
- alert.
-
- Installing and Removing the Quit Menu Item
- ---------------------------------------
- • Information listed in this section is applied to both the Install... and the
- Remove... buttons. The only difference between the two is, of course,
- what they actually do to the Finder’s File menu. Other than that, they
- work the same. Installation or removal of the Quit item will be called
- “modification” hereafter.
-
- • Choosing one of the Finder modification buttons will bring up an open
- file dialog. Here you can select any System 7.0 (or higher) Finder for
- modification. You can select a Finder on another disk, or you can even
- select the current Finder.
-
- • If you select the current Finder for modification, you will see an alert
- offering you three options. You can cancel the modification (click Cancel),
- or you can continue updating the File menu and either return to the Control
- Panel or force a quit. Forcing a quit is a dirty way of exiting the Finder
- and is not always guaranteed to work properly. If you say OK, you should
- always press Quit now immediately after the update is done. See below
- for modifier keys which make modifying the current Finder much
- simpler.
-
- • It is only necessary to quit from the Finder after modifying the current
- Finder. It is not required that you quit from the Finder if you modify the
- Finder on, say, another disk.
-
- • To update your menus by hitting Quit now, make sure no other processes
- are running. Otherwise, you’ll have to quit from them all to bring back
- the Finder.
-
- • Holding down the option key while clicking on one of the modification
- buttons automatically selects the current Finder.
-
- • Holding down the shift key while clicking on one of the modification
- buttons suppresses the alert and selects OK by default. You should
- remember to press Quit now to update the menus.
-
- • Holding down the command key while clicking on one of the
- modification buttons automatically selects Quit now after modifying
- the Finder you select. This should only be used when modifying the
- current Finder (otherwise, it is unnecessary to quit from the Finder).
-
- • To modify the current Finder, suppressing all dialogs and alerts, and
- automatically quit to update the menus, hold down the option, command,
- and shift keys while clicking on the “Install...” or “Remove...” button.
-
- Quitting from the Finder
- ----------------------
- • In System 7.0 and higher, the Finder is a process, just like any other open
- application. Right now, TeachText (or whatever you are using now to
- read this document) is probably a process. And just like any other
- process, you can Quit the Finder. And, just as you will bring up the
- next-to-front process when you quit this program, quitting from the
- Finder will bring up the next-to-front process. If no other process is
- running, the Finder will quit, and, since it can quit to nothing else, it is
- re-launched by the System. This is how you update your File menu after
- modification.
-
- • Like quitting from any other program, quitting from the Finder frees
- the memory it occupied.
-
- • The main drawback of quitting from the Finder is that, since the Finder
- controls the Apple menu, quitting from the Finder will cause you to
- lose your Apple menu. Only the apple and the About menu item will
- remain. You can get it back by reloading the Finder.
-
- • To get the Finder running again, you must quit from all other
- applications. The System opens the Finder by default when there are no
- other processes to activate.
-
- What Does “Pink Slip” Mean?
- --------------------------
- • Well, you want to fire the Finder, right?
-
- • The icon is supposed to be a command key and a Finder crossed with
- a Q to indicate that the Control Panel adds a command-Q facility
- (Quit command) to your Finder.
-
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR
- ==================
- If you use this program, have any comments or suggestions, or ideas for
- other programs, please write me a note, e-mail or post.
-
- Robert Gibson E-Mail:
- RR#1 Carrying Place CIS: 71261,2236
- Ontario, CANADA Internet: 71261.2236@compuserve.com
- KØK 1LØ
-
- This program is not to be included in any software collections other than
- BBSs and on-line services (e.g. CD ROMs, PD Disks, etc.) without prior
- written consent from the author. Any distribution MUST MUST MUST
- include this document, unmodified.
-
- Pink Slip copyright © 1992 Robert Gibson. All rights reserved.
-