Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!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 12:55:26 GMT References: <53345@apple.Apple.COM> <1991May29.163147.20409@mmm.serc.3m.com> <53464@apple.Apple.COM> <13734@goofy.Apple.COM> Sender: news@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Indiana University Lines: 39 lsr@Apple.COM (Larry Rosenstein) writes: >It occurs to me that trying to figure out the fmnu structure is the wrong >approach to take. Especially since someone reported that editing one fmnu >causes the Finder to install the menus in the wrong order. I reported that the ballon help would be out of order if you moved the menu items around (which i did because i use find... & find again... a lot more than sharing... & (since i don't have a network) and the user interface guidelines say i should put most used commands at the tops of menus.) I also added a "Quit" to the finder...with no problems (the ballon help being out of order is not a problem for ResEdit users, IMHO) How to do all this was detailed in a note to comp.sys.mac.digest by Alexander Falk, and the finder templates are at sumex, along with 'fani' & fval' templates. >If you look at the menus inside the Finder, you'll see that they are normal >menus. So rather than changing the fmnu, add the command keys after the >Finder installs the normal menus in the menu bar. It should be a simple >system extension to do this. What do you mean by this? I looked in my finder just now (using the "Quit" command--quite useful) and found no resources of type 'menu'. So the only way i have of adding cmd-keys is by editing the 'fval.' Do you mean that the finder uses the resources of type 'fval' to make resources of type 'menu' on the fly, stores them in RAM, then gets these new resources? If so, wouldn't it make more sense to store the 'menu' resources in the finder? -- ...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.'"