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Re: Wanted - Menubar compression extension/INIT

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From: Nicolas Mercouroff
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1991 18:49
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klautky@vaxa.weeg.uiowa.edu (BIOCHEMISTRY) writes:


>Dear Readers,

>        Is there an extension/INIT that will compress the menu-bar
>selections so that all of them are visible?  I often lose Superclock
>and MacroMaker when some applications such as MicrophoneII add
>another selection to the menu-bar (in this case MicroEditor).

>        If there is another way to get around this problem that does
>not involve INITs please pass on the information.  

>        Unfortunately, my neck of the woods academic computer dealer
>does not have Sys 7 yet (site license problems?) so I am not sure if
>there is some way to do this in Sys 7 without extensions.  Is there?
>Can ResEdit 2.1 help?

>      Thanks in advance                   Stephen Klautky

>                           INTERNET:   KLAUTKY@VAXA.WEEG.UIOWA.EDU 


I've seen (but never used) a shareware init for system 6.0.x called 
"MBarCompress" which is supposed to compress the menu bar to leave 
space for utilities like SuperClock. It is not a surprise that it 
works badly with system 7.0.

You can find it on 
	mac.archive.umich.edu,
under 
	/mac/system.extensions/init/mbarcompress.cpt.hqx


-Nicolas Mercouroff		nm@cs.brandeis.edu
 Dept. of Computer Sciences, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02154
 My home: P.O. Box 390929, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
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Subject: Re: Wanted - Menubar compression extension/INIT
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