#11636 - Part 1 - Frans van de Rijke

Een alternatief voor PopupFolder?

@ Jos Laauwen (#1184) [Mactivity 01/96]
Betreft : PopupFolder 2.0 -een must-

Een alternatief voor PopupFolder is :
Control Strip Menu 2.2

Copyright © 1995, Vincent Tan and Ammon Skidmore.

Hier een deel van de Engelstalige read me

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What is it? - description, features, requirements and compatibilty notes

Description:

Control Strip Menu is a module for Apple's Control Strip control panel. When you install and set up this module, you will have a handy way of quickly accessing your favourite files and folders from the control strip. If you don't know what the Control Strip is, see About control strip modules in the third file for details.

How does it work? By clicking on an icon, you can open a file, application or folder. If you hold down the mouse on a folder icon, a menu of the folder's contents will appear. You can then access files and folders in the menu. With Macintosh Drag and Drop installed or System 7.5 or later, you can drag files, folders or data to icons on the Control Strip Menu, or even to folders inside those folder icons! This allows you to quickly and easily access your favourite files and folders with a simple click or drag.

Features:

* able to display the contents of the selected folder as a line of icons on the strip. In fact, you can display any folder in your System folder as a line of icons (even the Apple Menu Items can be displayed - see Changing settings in the second file for instructions)

* supports dragging and dropping of files, folders or data to icons on the displayed strip or into folders inside the icons that pop up from the icons - this makes it very handy to move things when your screen is full of windows covering your Finder windows: there is no need to hide windows or switch to the Finder! As far as we know, this is a unique feature - it is not available in any other menu utility.

* dropped items can be moved, copied, or an alias can be made of them. This allows you to quickly and easily move or copy files/folders or even make aliases to them in one simple step.

* full color support - displays items in their Finder label colors!

* Control Strip Menu doesn't patch anything. This means it does not modify the way your system works in any way and so greatly reduces your chances of getting an extension conflict.

* able to be customised in many ways, including:
- the font and font size that are used in the menus
- small or large icons can be displayed on the strip
- the way folders are listed in menus
- what folder is displayed on the control strip
- folders and aliases can be distinguished easily by selecting a style for them
- the behaviour of items you drag
- the behaviour of icon clicks

* Aaron savvy. See below.

Hardware and software requirements:

This module requires:

* a control strip utility to be installed, such as Apple's Control Strip, or other third party utilities such as Extensions Strip or Desktop Strip. Control Strip Menu is Extensions Strip savvy. See the Other software by Ammon section below for info about obtaining Extensions Strip.

* System 7 or later.

Recommended software:

* Macintosh Drag and Drop (which is built into system 7.5 or later). This will allow you to use Control Strip Menu's drag and drop features.

* Extensions Strip, because many features such as large icons, vertical icons, and the drag and drop features work best with it.

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Ik heb hem sinds een paar dagen op mijn machine zitten en hij voldoet erg goed.

Ik zet hem op deze retour disk.

Groetjes Frans.

*** Control Strip Menu 2.2 en Extensions Strip vind je terug op PD 1831; Desktop Strip vind je terug op de JubelCD, PD 1758 en Mactivity 02/95.

Bedankt voor het sturen, Frans.

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