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From: parent@apple.com (Sean Parent)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Tail patches
Message-ID: <5133@internal.Apple.COM>
Date: 10 Nov 89 18:51:32 GMT
Organization: Apple Computer, Inc.
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References:<1459@sequent.cs.qmc.ac.uk> <36250@apple.Apple.COM> <5056@internal.Apple.COM> <1989Nov7.212837.5146@oracle.com> <5080@internal.Apple.COM> <1467@sequent.cs.qmc.ac.uk>

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.

I hope you would never put such a hack into a commercial piece of software.

Sean Parent
"Quality unattainable in a reasonable amount of time."