[comp.sys.mac] Aask is now out!

victoro@crash.cts.com (Victor O'Rear) (01/18/89)

In the latest issue of MacWeek magazine CE software announced the release
of the Aask INIT (the most pirated unrelease useful software) with the
latest version of theis MockPackage.


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t-jacobs@wasatch.UUCP (Tony Jacobs) (01/20/89)

The release Aask comes with the 4.4 version of the MockPackage. It is much
nicer than the beta thats been around. You can get to it from the control panel
and make changes there.

Also new in the 4.4 release is a new version of EZ-menu that lets you run any
menu (not window menus) inside any program using the keyboard. Here's how it
works: Hit the defined hot key and the last menu used pops down, tab to rotate
thru the available menus or use arrow keys to go right or left. Then you can
type characters to select a unique menu item, and then you hit return or enter
to select that item. This is also now a control panel item and from there you
select what hot key you want, turn EZ-menu on & off, turn startup icon on/off.

Some suggestions I'm going to pass on to CE are:

-the delay between typing to uniqueness and reseting to a new menu item is way
   too long and not changeable.
-you can't abort the menu selection unless you click away from the menu. You
   can hit return or enter while in the top  though.
-EZ-menu started out with only the capability of automatically popping a menu
   down when the mouse entered the menu bar. Well, I don't like that feature
   but I do love being able to use the menus with the keyboard. So they should
   add an options to the control panel to turn either on or off.

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barrys@Apple.COM (Barry Semo) (01/24/89)

In article <938@wasatch.UUCP> t-jacobs@wasatch.utah.edu.UUCP (Tony Jacobs) writes:
>The release Aask comes with the 4.4 version of the MockPackage. It is much

Microseeds Publishing of Tampa, Florida introduced INITPicker, which allows 
one to choose which INITs run and _alter the order_ in which they are loaded.
Unlike other methods, it does not alter file types.  One nice feature is the 
ability to automatically skip new INITs that it doesn't know about - a little 
extra help against the surprise virus attacks.  It can be invoked at startup 
or from the Control Panel.