[comp.sys.mac] Quickeys and QuickFolder NOT compatible

hunt@firqb.dec.com (Phil Hunt) (11/05/87)

Hello,
 
   I have found that Quickeys from CE software and Quick Folder, a shareware
INIT file,  are not compatible with each other!!!   What a tossup!!  They are
both great stuff!!  If Quickeys is loaded, then QuickFolder does not put it's
extra 'New Folder' button in GETFILE dialog windows, it doesn't crash, it just
doesn't show up.
 
And a question about QuicKeys,  how do they make it both an INIT and a CDEV??
 
I have the Quickeys demo, and it puts up its ICON on system startup (An INIT)
AND comes up in the control panel.  How do they do that???
 
Phil Hunt

lsr@apple.UUCP (Larry Rosenstein) (11/06/87)

In article <12098@decwrl.DEC.COM> hunt@firqb.dec.com (Phil Hunt) writes:
> 
>And a question about QuicKeys,  how do they make it both an INIT and a CDEV??

It turns out that cdev files behave just like INIT files.  At startup time,
all the INIT resources in the file are executed.  The same is true of files
with type RDEV, which are used by Chooser.

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jww@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU (Joel West) (11/06/87)

In article <12098@decwrl.DEC.COM>, hunt@firqb.dec.com (Phil Hunt) writes:
> And a question about QuicKeys,  how do they make it both an INIT and a CDEV??

An INIT is a resource.  The system checks certain file types in the
System Folder at startup for INIT resources.  cdev, rdev and INIT files
are the ones I know about.
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dwb@apple.UUCP (David W. Berry) (11/06/87)

In article <12098@decwrl.DEC.COM> hunt@firqb.dec.com (Phil Hunt) writes:
>And a question about QuicKeys,  how do they make it both an INIT and a CDEV??
> 
>I have the Quickeys demo, and it puts up its ICON on system startup (An INIT)
>AND comes up in the control panel.  How do they do that???
	INIT 31 and the Control Panel both will look in files with
type RDEV for their appropriate resources.  INIT31 uses INIT resources
from INIT and RDEV files.  The Control Panel uses CDEV resources from
CDEV and RDEV files.
> 
>Phil Hunt


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hammen@csd4.milw.wisc.edu (Robert Joseph Hammen) (11/09/87)

In article <12098@decwrl.DEC.COM> hunt@firqb.dec.com (Phil Hunt) writes:
>Hello,
> 
>   I have found that Quickeys from CE software and Quick Folder, a shareware
>INIT file,  are not compatible with each other!!!   What a tossup!!  They are
>both great stuff!!  If Quickeys is loaded, then QuickFolder does not put it's
>extra 'New Folder' button in GETFILE dialog windows, it doesn't crash, it just
>doesn't show up.

Have you tried changing the order in which they are executed? Sometimes there
are incompatibilities between INITs that can be resolved easily by changing
the order. QuicKeys and Quick Folder (or is it QuickFolder) are pretty close
to each other, although I can't tell for sure which one would be loaded first.
Try renaming QuicKeys to first aQuicKeys and, if that doesn't help, zQuicKeys.
Alternatively, try toggling QuicKeys off - in my limited exposure with the
program I seem to recall a way to do that...
 
>Phil Hunt



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