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Article #1028Re: Need 'On Cue'-like program
From: Andrew Efron
Date: Wed, 05 Aug 1992 14:00
Date: Wed, 05 Aug 1992 14:00
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> In article <1992Jul28.120511.7855@vax.oxford.ac.uk> (comp.sys.mac.apps),
> banks@vax.oxford.ac.uk writes:
> > In article <36189@sdcc12.ucsd.edu>, al@jeeves.ucsd.edu (Andy Lee) writes:
> > > I have been using On Cue to launch applications from the menu
> > > bar, but seem to be having an init conflict with some of my
> > > other indispensible cdevs/inits. Does anyone know of something
> > > similiar that I could use and also where I might find it?
>
> Funny, On Cue gave me conflicts with SuperBoomerang. (I wonder why...could
> it be because ICOM felt it necessary to superglue On Disk to On Cue?)
> In any case, I hacked out the On Disk part so now my On Cue is just
> On Cue. If anyone would like, I could mail them a copy of the updater
> that I created...
I had conflicts with SuperBoomerang as well, but switched to Apollo. It's a
little faster because it doesn't seem to throw you back into the finder
before launching your app, like OnCue does.
> > I too endorse Apollo (currently at ver. 0.8). I use sys. 7 and still
> > find it indispensible.
>
> It was pretty good, but I STILL think the On Cue configuration process
> is MUCH better. I miss the Power-button app switching, though.
>
> > It is very flexible, very neat and has yet to reveal a bug to
> > me (in the current version).
>
> I had lots of crashes on 0.8b3. It's either because I'm running System
> 6 (save your flames) or because I have a B&W monitor. It kept crashing
> on Get(something)Depth. After several too many crashes, I decided
> to hack out my old copy of On Cue, and the rest is history...
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Peter Creath "When I was a boy I was told that anybody could
> peterc@cubetech.com become president; I'm beginning to believe )
> it."
-- Clarence Darrow
Haven't had any problems with 0.8b3 on a color fx.
Andy
"I didn't do it to make history. You do something that you want
to do or feel you have to do, because you like it and love it.
And if it turns out to be history, well, so what?"
--Carroll Shelby, from 'The Cobra-Ferrari Wars'
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!nntp1.radiomail.net!cornerstone!news From: aefron@cornerstone.com (Andrew Efron) Subject: Re: Need 'On Cue'-like program Message-ID: <1992Aug5.140055.28255@cornerstone.com> Sender: news@cornerstone.com Nntp-Posting-Host: aefron_mac Reply-To: aefron@cornerstone.com (Andrew Efron) Organization: Cornerstone Research, Cambridge, Mass. References: <dx3uv972.a2kd72@moebius.cubetech.com> Date: Wed, 5 Aug 1992 14:00:55 GMT Lines: 50