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From: dwb@sticks.apple.com (David W. Berry)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Tail patches
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Date: 11 Nov 89 00:31:15 GMT
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In article <5133@internal.Apple.COM> parent@apple.com (Sean Parent) writes:
>In article <1467@sequent.cs.qmc.ac.uk> jeremyr@cs.qmc.ac.uk (Jeremy 
>Roussak) writes:
>> I was challenged to write a patch which would play a sound, preferably
>> whenever the Finder emptied the wastebasket (doesn't appear to be 
>possible)
>> or at least when "Empty Wastebasket" was chosen from the menu.  The
>> reason for this curious request was that the person concerned had changed
>> the wastebasket icon to look like a toilet and wanted it to flush!
>
>I would say that this falls into the catagory of one time, skanky, 
>useless hacks :-). There is no way that you could ever do this cleanly 
>unless the Mac had an empty trash trap which it doesn't. You can not be 
>sure that the menu items will not change in the future (in fact, I'm sure 
>they will). You could patch the FileManager so that the flush is sounded 
>every time a file is deleted but that may be over kill since lots of 
>applications create temporary files.
	How about patching the FileManager to make rude noises whenever
a file with both the desktop and trash bits set is deleted.  It's fairly
clean, straight forward, and can be done with a head patch instead of
a tail patch.
Opinions:  MINE, ALL MINE! (greedy evil chuckle)

David W. Berry		(A/UX Toolbox Engineer)
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