Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!olivea!mintaka!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!stanford.edu!msi.umn.edu!umeecs!zip!spencer From: spencer@eecs.umich.edu (Spencer W. Thomas) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps Subject: Re: Application launcher? Message-ID: Date: 16 Mar 91 00:05:32 GMT References: Sender: news@zip.eecs.umich.edu Distribution: comp Organization: University of Michigan EECS Dept Lines: 32 In-Reply-To: spencer@eecs.umich.edu's message of 14 Mar 91 11:55:17 Seems my original query was not clear about what I want. Here's a second try: Here's the picture: I bought Now Utilities (for Super Boomerang). It comes with an application launcher/switcher INIT (like OnCue or HandOff) that will drop a "menu" of applications. You can attach documents to each application, and you then get a submenu that lets you launch the application with a specific document: | MacWrite | ------------ | Microsoft Word > | | Other... | | Persuasion | | Paper | | Photoshop | | xyzzy | | SuperPaint | ------------ With the number of applications I like to have available, the menu can get pretty long. I saw somewhere recently (I thought on the net) a reference to a program that launches its "document". I could name a copy of this program "Games", and then have a menu like this: | Draw | ----------------- | Games > | | Canfield | | MacWrite | | Forty Thieves | | Microsoft Word | | Shanghai | | Persuasion | | Tetris | | Photoshop | ----------------- Does anybody know of this program and where I can find it? -- =Spencer W. Thomas EECS Dept, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 spencer@eecs.umich.edu 313-936-2616 (8-6 E[SD]T M-F)