Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!bbn.com!nic!news.cs.brandeis.edu!chaos.cs.brandeis.edu!nm From: nm@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Nicolas Mercouroff) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps Subject: Re: Wanted - Menubar compression extension/INIT Message-ID: Date: 25 Jun 91 18:49:08 GMT References: <6604@ns-mx.uiowa.edu> Sender: usenet@news.cs.brandeis.edu Organization: Brandeis University Lines: 37 klautky@vaxa.weeg.uiowa.edu (BIOCHEMISTRY) writes: >Dear Readers, > Is there an extension/INIT that will compress the menu-bar >selections so that all of them are visible? I often lose Superclock >and MacroMaker when some applications such as MicrophoneII add >another selection to the menu-bar (in this case MicroEditor). > If there is another way to get around this problem that does >not involve INITs please pass on the information. > Unfortunately, my neck of the woods academic computer dealer >does not have Sys 7 yet (site license problems?) so I am not sure if >there is some way to do this in Sys 7 without extensions. Is there? >Can ResEdit 2.1 help? > Thanks in advance Stephen Klautky > INTERNET: KLAUTKY@VAXA.WEEG.UIOWA.EDU I've seen (but never used) a shareware init for system 6.0.x called "MBarCompress" which is supposed to compress the menu bar to leave space for utilities like SuperClock. It is not a surprise that it works badly with system 7.0. You can find it on mac.archive.umich.edu, under /mac/system.extensions/init/mbarcompress.cpt.hqx -Nicolas Mercouroff nm@cs.brandeis.edu Dept. of Computer Sciences, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02154 My home: P.O. Box 390929, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA