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From: amorton@ee.mu.OZ.AU (Anthony Morton)
Subject: Desktop Utilities 4.0 beta release (0/4)
Message-ID: <9424416.19068@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>
Summary: Incomplete but possibly useful
Keywords: desktop utilities beta release
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Organization: Dept of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, University of Melbourne
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 1994 06:30:11 GMT
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In response to questions from various people regarding the fate of Desktop
Utilities 4.0, I've decided to post what we have so far.  Sadly, Rob and I
have had no time to work on this since last April, so a few bugs remain in
what is being posted here.

This posting contains the Desktop Utilities kernel and four modules: NDA
Interface, Virtual DA Manager, Menu Bar Manager and Clock Manager.  Programmer
documentation is also included, to explain how to write your own modules, how
to interface with the existing modules and how to use the powerful programming
tools built into the kernel.

About the modules: the NDA Interface provides a user interface, in the form
of an NDA, for accessing Desktop Utilities functions.  The Virtual DA Manager
is perhaps the most useful module, allowing CDAs and NDAs to be made 'virtual'
so that they do not take up valuable RAM space when they aren't being used.
The Menu Bar Manager and Clock Manager work together to provide a menu bar
clock which can be changed to display the date, free memory or mouse
coordinates via a pop-up menu.  Other modules can use the Menu Bar Manager to
create objects in the menu bar which can be moved to any position on the menu
bar or onto the desktop.  See the 'About.DTUtils4' file for more information.

The posting is in the usual form of a ShrinkIt archive encoded using BinSCII.

Desktop Utilities 4.0 requires a IIgs and System 6.0 or later.

Enjoy,

Tony Morton (amorton@ee.mu.oz.au)
Electrical Engineering Masters student & diehard IIGS lover
University of Melbourne, Australia
IIgs Software Librarian, Apple User's Society of Melbourne (AUSOM)