Ravinder.Chandhok@CS.CMU.EDU (Rob Chandhok) (10/23/89)
I have released ChooseMe version 0.1d4 by placing it in a publically ftp'able directory on my home machine. You can find ChooseMe in two forms, a stuffit archive which you should transfer in image mode, and a binhex'd version of the same which you can get as ASCII. ChooseMe can be found on host gnome.cs.cmu.edu as: /usr/chandhok/public/chooseme/chooseme01d4.sit /usr/chandhok/public/chooseme/chooseme01d4.sit.hqx Note that that is a zero after "chooseme". I didn't put ChooseMe everywhere yet since it is still under development. If someone wants to re-post to info-mac, or comp.mac.binaries, be my guest, I don't have the time right now. Well, I did put it in my public folder on my Mac II. But I doubt you can get to it there... Here's the contents of the "notes" file in the release: ********************************************************************** Release Notes for ChooseMe (c) 1989 Ravinder Chandhok School of Computer Science Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA, 15213 Phone: 412 268-2468 Internet: chandhok+@cs.cmu.edu *********** Version 0.1d4 Monday, October 23, 1989 *********** This is the first external release of ChooseMe, so I expect some bugs. ChooseMe is meant to replace Apple's Chooser DA, since Chooser can't deal with many devices in a zone. If you have problems like seeing devices come and go, and not seeing some devices at all, and you don't have a physical net problem, ChooseMe may be the answer. ChooseMe doesn't have an internal limit on the number of devices it can list. When ChooseMe gets an NBP reply, it inserts the device name into a sorted list for the user to pick from. ChooseMe is an application, built using MacApp from Apple. Don't write code without it. When you first run ChooseMe, you will notice that the devices don't just fill in one by one like in the Chooser. After about 5 seconds, the first round of replies will all of a sudden appear in the window. All additions to the list happen in that chunky fashion. *********** Known Bugs/Missing features: *********** * A glaring ommission is that ChooseMe doesn't set the current printer in the system file (i.e. LaserWriter vs. AppleTalk ImageWriter) because all my attempts to update the stupid STR(-8192) resource in the system file did not work. Perhaps someone can elighten me. ChooseMe does work fine once you pick a device, however, so don't worry, the Mac will remember which Laserwriter you chose. That information is stored in the LaserWriter file itself. * ChooseMe doesn't deal with serial printer (PRES) files. So you can't switch to an Imagewriter from ChooseMe. * ChooseMe currently keeps looking every 5 seconds for new devices. I think that there should be an initial flurry of activity, followed by an exponentially backing off set of NBP lookup requests, so that if someone leaves ChooseMe running overnight it won't beat on the net forever. * I haven't look at the new communications toolbox from Apple, so I don't know if I am just re-inventing something that is fixed already. * There is a possibility that I can be convinced to distribute the sources.