Ward Oldham wrote: > Hi Allan and Marta, > > Your control strip modules are more analogous to plug-ins instead of > drivers. It should be relatively easy to determine whether a piece of > software is a control strip module. Performing a "Get Info" on the > file in question or just drag in on top of your System Folder and let > the system tell you what it is. > > The format for writing Control strip modules is predetermined by Apple > but these can be written by any third party software vendor. Marta, > if you wish to launch any applications or files with the convenience > of a control strip module, you may want to check out using the > Launcher. And for those who despise using the Launcher, one may also > group all of their important aliases together in a folder on their > hard disk, open that folder, then proceed to drag that open window to > the base of their screen thus creating a pop-up tab. You can further > tweak this by making those items "buttons' for convenient single click > operation. > > Ward Oldham > > > On Monday, November 18, 2002, at 10:22 AM, Allan Atherton wrote: > >> Mledie at aol.com wrote: >> >>> Hi, Allan, >>> no, they are not modules with a tab. Those are the ones already in the >>> folder. I can manipulate those. What I would like to do is put some >>> other, for >>> instance my Acrobat Reader down ... can I determine in some way, >>> whether any >>> application is control strip ready ? Who decides which applications >>> etc. are in >>> the module folder ? Why is my Antivirus in there, why I-Tunes? Why >>> keychain >>> etc? Why not DataViz , Retrospect , Stuffit Expander etc? - Have the >>> controlstrip modules been predetermined by Apple ? >> >> >> Good question. I did not realize so many things could be put in the >> control >> strip. After what you said, I think it must be like drivers. Someone >> has to >> write a control strip module for an application to work out of the >> control >> strip. >> Allan Atherton >> >> I prefer the Launcher. However, since there's so many ways of customizing your Mac, what works for one may not suit another. If you're looking for easy access to your applications, put an alias of the Applications folder in the Apple Menu Items folder rather than putting aliases of individual applications. This way you can access anything in the folder.
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