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From: thecloud@dhw68k.cts.com (Ken McLeod)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: inits running off the right side of a 9" screen
Message-ID: <22653@dhw68k.cts.com>
Date: 3 May 89 09:47:49 GMT
References: <1755@yunexus.UUCP>
Reply-To: thecloud@dhw68k.cts.com (Ken McLeod)
Organization: Wolfskill & Dowling residence; Anaheim, CA (USA)
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In article <1755@yunexus.UUCP> gall@yunexus.UUCP (Norman R. Gall) writes:
>Ok.  I have 19 inits and most can't have their icons turned off (nor
>do they have a separate init resource that I could hack out).  Is
>there anything I can do about this?  Maybe someone should write an
>init to have two rows of startup init icons :-) :-)

  The latest version of IconWrap (1.2) is sitting in the comp.binaries.mac
queue, even as we speak.

  This INIT came about as a result of similar "complaints" about startup
icons, sometime last November or so. David Oster originally came up with
the idea of doing a "carriage return," by resetting the value stored in
low memory which determines the icon's horizontal position. I posted an
INIT shortly thereafter which offset multiple rows vertically, by patching
_CopyBits so the icon's destination rectangle could be shifted.

  That initial version of IconWrap proved to have a serious design flaw
(it was a tail patch), and several applications crashed when it was installed.
The current version, 1.2, has been completely rewritten, and supports the
latest ShowINIT code for color icons. It's been tested fairly rigorously,
and appears to be quite robust.

  Interestingly enough, I've gotten considerable feedback from people who
can't STAND startup icons, period, and want some global method of shutting
them all off (without affecting the loading of the INIT, of course). This
is certainly possible, and if there's ever an IconWrap 2.0, it will
probably include this feature (although I can't understand WHY you'd ever
grow tired of the friendly little things marching across your screen! :-)

-ken

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