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From: mneerach@iiic.ethz.ch (Matthias Ulrich Neeracher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: How to add to the System Menu bar?
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Date: 8 Jan 91 09:42:33 GMT
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In article <37701@cup.portal.com>, Michael_I_Summers@cup.portal.com writes:
> I would like to add an item to the System (Finder's?) menu bar, but perusing
> "Inside Macintosh" doesn't show me anything that looks reasonable.
> 
> What I am thinking of is something like Disk Doubler's init which adds "DD"
> as a menu pick to the right of "Color" when Finder is active. Pointers to
> the right documentation and/or (especially) examples would be much
> appreciated.

I'd like to see that, too. I'd also like to know how Diskdoubler finds out
the selected file/folder. I once read that there was an undocumented but
actually quite stable interface to the Finder to do that.

Matthias

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Matthias Neeracher                                   mneerach@iiic.ethz.ch
   "These days, though, you have to be pretty technical before you can 
    even aspire to crudeness." -- William Gibson, _Johnny Mnemonic_