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From: svc@well.sf.ca.us (Leonard Rosenthol)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Remember Black Box?
Summary: the coming of QuickTools
Message-ID: <16543@well.sf.ca.us>
Date: 6 Mar 90 16:57:46 GMT
References: <2338@rodan.acs.syr.edu>
Reply-To: svc@well.UUCP (Leonard Rosenthol)
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Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA
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In article <2338@rodan.acs.syr.edu> wwtaroli@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Bill Taroli) writes:
>Does anyone out there remember BlackBox?  I've still got version 1.5, but
>I'm frustrated by the non-fatal address errors that are caused when most
>programs get launched.
>
>Does anyone know if the author has been working on corrections for this 
>(and other) problem?  Does he have an address on the net?  I would enjoy
>this application if it would operate without such problems, but what is one
>to do if the author apparently has given up?
>
	I have some good news for you Black Box owners...Andrew Welch, the
author of BlackBox , has been hard at work for the last couple of months 
working on a project originally called Menagerie, and now called QuickTools
(to be marketed commercially by Casady & Greene, inc.).
	QuickTools will be a package of five utilities whose functionality 
originally began as the individual pieces of BlackBox, and then grew from there.
Included in the package are:
	Functionality - Makes the F1-F4 keys work as they are marked
	Dialog Power - Gives cmdKey equivalents to checkBoxs, radioButtons and
pushButtons in your dialogs and alerts.
	SunSet - A modular screen saver (like AfterDark or Pyro 4.0)
	Snipper - THE BEST SCREEN CAPTURE UTILITY TO DATE!  (Anyone who has
ever tried to capture _JUST_ one window/dialog or _JUST_ one menu will LOVE this
as it has a special mode for 'windows/dialog' and menus.  You have to see this
to believe it!
	PowerStrip - this is the NeXT-like application doc which is now movable,
resizable, and hidable.  It also supports document launching!

	Although I have not confirmed this with C&G, QuickTools will ship in
time for MacWorld SF (or Andrew will be in trouble ;-)

Disclaimer: I have been working with Andrew getting the last couple of bugs 
and features taken care of and have written some of the Sunset modules so I
guess that makes me baised....

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