Use of Idle DA

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1 total messages Started by Jaap Bood Fri, 08 Feb 1985 15:48

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Author: Jaap Bood
Date: Fri, 08 Feb 1985 15:48

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Just received the new Desk Accessory "Idle" from Larry Rosenstein from Apple.
I have replaced my existing Sleep DA's with this one, since it seems to work
best. Larry's remark that you would want an application-specific icon is not
completely correct as far as I understand. You don't need to install the
driver in every application - just installing the icon that you want to use
would do the trick.
(This is because the icon is a resource, and resources are always searched
in document-application-system; although icons seem to be slightly
different, since they get copied into the Desktop resource file.)
It becomes even simpler if you change the icon number in
the Idle DA from 3 to 128. This seems to be the standard (or at least
default?) icon number for most applications, at least for the ones I had on
my MacTerminal disk. This way you don't have to change any application, and
the Idle DA will show a different icon for each application.
I've created a special icon in "Desktop", to show when Idle is used from the
finder.
			Have fun,	Jaap Bood
					ATT & Philips Telecommunication (APT)
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Jaap Bood
IH-3058
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