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- Menu Events is distributed as part of a free set of cooperating programs,
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- AWOL Utilities. This section explains how Menu Events can work in
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- xHelp on Wheels
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- Help on Wheels is an efficient and full-featured help server which displays
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- help files on behalf of client applications. The help file you are reading is
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- distributed alongside the Menu Events extension file as a separate Help on
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- Wheels document.
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- Because Menu Events is not an application, its help support is limited. To
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- read this help, press the Help or Command-? key while the machine is
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- starting up, and release the key once you see the Menu Events icon with a
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- help balloon on it. The help server will open to display the help file after
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- startup is complete.
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- Maybe, the Finder alias enhancer, has an option allowing you to script a
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- single Apple event and choose its target. This Apple event will be sent
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- just before the alias target is opened or printed. In this way, you can
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- achieve the effect of sending a simple Menu event by opening the
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- The following picture shows typical Maybe option settings for sending a
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- Menu event. In this example, the wait time has been set to zero, and the
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- default response to “No,” so that the target is never opened or printed.
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- Maybe does not require AppleScript or any other scripting system to send
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- a Menu event. Many programs, including all kinds of scripting utilities,
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- offer a similar opportunity to send Menu events to any target application
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- AWOL Utilities also contains an application, Menu Grabber, which uses
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- Menu events to swap any target application’s menu bar over its own.
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- This allows you to command most of the application’s functions from a
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- remote location, although you will not see anything but the menus. For
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- most target applications, Menu Grabber will only be able to select menu
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- items from a remote machine if the target’s copy of Menu Events was
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- unlocked at startup.
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- See the section entitled “User Interaction Policy” for more information
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- about the effect of locking the Menu Events extension.
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- When Menu Grabber grabs a menu, it adds a disabled item to show the
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- menu ID. This may help you if you are writing a program or script to send
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- a Menu event to the application.
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