Just throw Eudora Thing into your System Folder, restart your Mac, and let the fun begin!
Feel free to read on, and if you have any questions that aren't listed here, feel fee to email me at:
Arlo Rose <arlo@rcontinuum.com>
By the way, Eudora Thing has an optional five dollar registration fee. You don't have to pay it, but if you feel like Eudora Thing is a valuable tool, and you want to support the time I put into it, please pay the five dollar fee.
Where does it go?
Eudora Thing is a System Extension, not a Eudora Extension. This means you'll need to put in the "Extensions Folder" in your "System Folder".
What versions of Eudora does it work with?
Eudora Thing will work with all versions of Eudora, Eudora Lite, and Eudora Pro.
How does it work?
Eudora Thing patches the way your Mac will draw text on the screen. To make a long story short, every time your Mac draws text, it will check to see if it's in the Eudora application, if it is, and the string of text starts with one or more ">"s, ":"s, "|"s, or ")"s, it will change the color of that text.
Doesn't Eudora 4.1 do the same thing?
Eudora 4.1 introduces colorized quotes, but they only use one color to colorize all levels of quotes, and will only recognize the ">" symbol. Eudora Thing will colorize up to five levels of quotes with different colors, and whatever symbols you define.
How do you change the colors it uses?
You'll need either ResEdit, or Resorcerer. Just open up the Eudora Thing extension with one of those two, and change the colors in 'clut' ID # 1000. In 2.0 I'll improve the way this works and give it a Control Panel interface.
How do you change the quote characters it uses?
Once again, you'll need either ResEdit, or Resorcerer. Just open up the Eudora Thing extension with one of those two, and change the characters in 'STR ' ID # 1000. In 2.0 I'll improve the way this works and give it a Control Panel interface.
I'm using Eudora 4.1, and it doesn't work because traditional quoting has been taken over by that weird black bar. What do I do?
Type the following string into a piece of new mail and command click on it. This will set Eudora 4.1s style of quoting back to the way 4.0 and previous versions did it.
<x-eudora-setting:260=1>
What problems does it have?
As of 1.6, I don't know of any problems. If you run into any, please let me know.
Do you ever plan to improve this?
Someday I hope to, but I'm a Human Interface designer, not a programmer.
I'd like to add the ability to detect the new quoted text bars that signify quoted styled text, and a control panel interface for changing the quoted text colors, and the characters it uses. If any one knows of any easy way for me to add these, please drop me a note and let me know!
What's changed since the last version?
Well, because of a glitch in the way Eudora 4.1 handles quoted text, I extensively rewrote how to detect lines of quoted text no longer relying on sample code from friends, but my own logic... which works much better. :-)
If you've used older versions, you'll notice that when you scroll, text doesn't change colors, and quote coloring no longer stops when you hit styled text.
As of 1.6, Eudora Thing also ignores extra space in quote characters so that you get the correct level of quoting.
1.6 also added the ability to check 'STR ' ID 1000 for its list of quote characters.
Distribution rights
The Software may be freely distributed via electronic bulletin boards, user groups, and person to person. When distributed, all accompanying files are to distributed with the Software WITHOUT EXCEPTION. The Software is not to be included with any commercial software or any public domain/shareware package sold for profit without proper written consent from The Author.
Warranty
THE AUTHOR MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, REGARDING THE FITNESS OF EUDORA THING FOR ANY PARTICULAR PURPOSE. THE AUTHOR CLAIMS NO LIABILITY FOR DATA LOSS OR OTHER PROBLEMS CAUSED DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY BY EUDORA THING.
