info-mac@uw-beaver (info-mac) (08/13/84)
From: cohn%UCBONYX@Berkeley Has anybody successfully written a desk accessory? I've thought about a way to write the desk accessory using the Mac Assembler and then just changing the type from CODE to DRVR. Since the RESOURCE MOVER doesn't let you change the type of a resource, I had to write a small machine language program to copy the code from my application and write it to another file with the DRVR type. After creating the DRVR, I just used RESOURCE MOVER and transfered the DRVR to the system resource file. Of course, my desk accessory appeared in the apple menu, but bombed (not of course). I modeled my first desk accessory after one I found called "Uriah Heap" written by Coonen which displays the heap usage graphically every 5 seconds. It's Real Nice. Still, mine doesn't work, yet it is so simple. Mine just opens a window and inverts the content region every few ticks. If you have any information at all concerning desk accessories, please write me. Desk accessories are defined in "Inside Macintosh" as being mini-applications of sorts. They can also operate while an application is running, allowing for very simple multitasking capabilities like spooling for instance. Please, someone, write a spooler! Ted Cohn cohn@ucbonyx via ucbvax
info-mac@uw-beaver (info-mac) (08/16/84)
From: Macintosh Evaluation Project <MAC%upenn-1100.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa> Yes, some new desk accessories have been developed. At the recent Apple University Consortium meeting, I got a look at some third-party accessories that will most likely be available in late fall or early winter. These will include a desk calendar/appointment book system, and a phone dialer system. They will come with an installer/de-installer program. The vendor has asked that his/her/its name not be mentioned at this time, but did state that ads for the product will appear in ST.Mac within the next few months. Keep your eyes open... --Dave
info-mac@uw-beaver (info-mac) (08/18/84)
From: Rick McGeer (on an aaa-60-s) <mcgeer%ucbkim@Berkeley> Forgive me for asking a very dumb question, but how can the new desk accessories be installed? I thought the accessories were all hard-coded into the OS, probably in Rom. On second thought, they don't come up until the Mac's been booted, so that probably isn't so; but where do the desk accessories live? Rick.
info-mac@uw-beaver (12/10/84)
From: Ed Pattermann <PATTERMANN@SUMEX-AIM.ARPA>
These files are also now on <INFO-MAC>.
-- Ed
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From: Bill Schilit <Sy.Bill%CU20B@COLUMBIA.ARPA>
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Ed & Bill,
I compiled some of the Desk Accessories which have come across my desk
and placed them in a resource file, binhex'ed and documented. You might
want to place this on info-mac.
Columbia-20::<CC.BILL>DAS.*
- Bill
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