Re: Switch-It! Demo

[bazyar@teal.csn.org (Jawaid Bazyar)]

badbunny@tfsp.saic.com (Brendan Hoar) writes:

>I'd just like to be the first on csa2 to say.....

>WAY COOL!

>Thanks Jawaid et al.  Now that I don't have the dreaded job of cleaning out my  
>/h1/icons folder so that Finder doesn't take 10 minutes to load (since its
>already loaded...), I think I may be taking advantage of the desktop a whole
>lot more.  Er, to clarify (since I don't know exactly how to edit that... :(),
>I'll only have to load finder ONCE per reboot instead of 1000 times between 
>applications.  This is cool.

>As usual, a couple of odd things:

>In the demo version, you might want to remove the 'DO NOT COPY' etc message
>from the about box.  Don't want the AOL/Genie/etc people panicing and pulling
>it, do you?  Er...panicking?

  Hmm. Hopefully they'll notice the 'override' in the textedit box
that pops up first :) And, everyone knows who I am, and who wrote
Switch-It!.

>BTW, I've had some strange behavior with the 10 minute time out...how is that
>detected and when can it pop up that message?  I've had ModZAP crash, but I
>wasn't shift booted at the time, so maybe I should keep my mouth shut about
>it...nevermind. :)

  Well, I'll refrain from giving would-be pirates the answer to your
first question... it can pop it up any time a GetNextEvent is called
after the timeout expires.  As for your second- um, let me put it this way.
soniqTracker has no problems with SI!. :-)

>Keep Sequential Systems on their toes and get that product out FAST!

  Bah... they've been keeping _me_ on _my_ toes with it. :)

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