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From: mystone@caen.engin.umich.edu (Dean Yu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: New (?) idea for MF menu bar icon
Message-ID: <41d593be.14e0d@robocop.engin.umich.edu>
Date: 5 Mar 89 04:25:00 GMT
Reply-To: mystone@caen (Dean Yu)
Organization: Computer Aided Engineering Network (CAEN), University of MI
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  As I'm sitting here staring at the small icon in the upper right hand
corner of the screen, I'm thinking it looks really scrunched, and a better
job could probably be done.  So here's my suggestion for spiffing it up in
future releases of MultiFinder.
  As far as I can tell, MultiFinder puts that icon in the menubar by just
taking the application's ICN#, and plotting it to a reduced rectangle.  Since
it has to find this icon through the BNDL resource anyway, it'd be almost
no effort at all for developers to put an sicn resource into the BNDL.
MultiFinder can then plot this small icon in the menubar instead of a
compacted version of the full sized icon.  This way, developers can design
their own icons that show that their application is running under MultiFinder,
and people, or rather, *I* don't have to look at this ugly thing in the corner
of my screen...
  So whadya think?  Phil?  Erich?

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