Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!bronze!copper!kiran From: kiran@copper.ucs.indiana.edu (Kiran Wagle) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: Modifying 7.0 finder menus Message-ID: Date: 30 May 91 12:47:11 GMT References: <9105251550.AA03580@enuxha.eas.asu.edu> <53345@apple.Apple.COM> <1991May29.163147.20409@mmm.serc.3m.com> <53464@apple.Apple.COM> Sender: news@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Indiana University Lines: 37 anderson@Apple.COM (Clark Anderson) writes: >In article <53345@apple.Apple.COM> anderson@Apple.COM (Clark Anderson) writes: >>The menus are in a resource named 'fmnu' (Finder Menu, >>I would suppose). The most practical way to edit these >>resources would be to make a template in ResEdit and do >>it from there. >From: pejacoby@mmm.serc.3m.com (Paul E. Jacoby) >>Clark, you wouldn't happen to have such a ResEdit template handy, would >>you? >No, I haven't had time to muck around with it. I did ask a >Finder engineer (who shall remain anonymous) if he had a >template. He just laughed and told me to figure out the structure >myself. So much for the brotherhood of programmers... > --clark The template & Stuff about how to make & use the template was posted last week by ALF (Alexander Falk) to comp.sys.mac.digest...i don't know if it ended up in the sumex archive... Another person has made the template, as well as a (corrected?) 'fval' and 'fani' templs. These are at sumex in info-mac/tech/sys7-fndr-tmpls.hqx or some such file. So look there. While you're there check out 'applicon' by Rick Holzgrafe (in /utils). Nice little app. -- ...kiran __________kiran@copper.ucs.indiana.edu________(812) 331-1710 From the corrections column in a July Fresno, CA _Bee_: "An item in Thursday's [issue] about the Massachusetts budget crisis made reference to new taxes that will help put Massachusetts 'back in the African-American.' The item should have said 'back in the black.'"