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- “READ ME” for Catapult, version 1.0
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- Copyright © 1992 Robert Gibson. All rights reserved.
- March 2, 1992
- Font: Geneva 12
-
- This document must go wherever Catapult goes. Please do not distribute
- Catapult without this documentation. Please do not modify this document.
-
- REGISTERING CATAPULT AND THE 7.0 PLUS UTILITIES
- ====================================================
- Catapult is not free. Sites using this software MUST register it by
- sending a few dollars to the author. Or you can consider the following.
-
- 7.0 PLUS Utilities is a package of all (more than 25) System 7.0 utilities
- I have written. You can get the disk with all of them NOW (not wait until
- I decide to upload the next program) by sending $29.95 to me. This will
- register you for all the software, will get you a disk of the software, and
- an update to the PLUS Utilities when it rolls around. It’s a pretty good
- deal. You should register your software, anyway, so why not do it
- like this? And it’s a lot cheaper this way.
-
- See the documentation which should accompany this file for more information
- on the 7.0 PLUS Utilities. A registration form should also accompany this file.
- Please use it to register the software.
-
- USING CATAPULT
- ====================
- • If you use Catapult, please please please send me a note. My addresses
- (post and e-mail) are given below in “About the Author”. Also, read the
- information in the above section on registration.
-
- What Does Catapult Do?
- ---------------------------
- • Catapult, a drag-and-drop utility (Drop Rob-Box), is a method of launching
- applications with drag-and-drop support while helping to keep your desktop
- clean. Drop documents over the Catapult icon and select the application to
- launch from the get file dialog. The documents will then be opened by the
- application you have selected (if that application allows it). Allows you to
- try opening files of a type not normally openable by the target application.
-
- Using Catapult
- -------------------
- • Drag sets of files, folders, or disks into the application, “Drop Box-
- style”. Catapult will then allow you to select an application which will
- open the selected items. Drop Boxes require Apple Events, and thus
- System 7.0 or higher.
-
- • Double-click on Catapult to see the about box information.
-
- • If you drop an alias directly into Catapult (i.e. the a folder containing
- the alias is not dropped over the application’s icon in the Finder), the
- alias will be resolved automatically.
-
- • Catapult can launch programs and aliases to programs. Disks, folders,
- and files can be sent as documents to those applications.
-
- • Catapult does not check the type of the file you are opening with the
- selected application. That is left up to the target program. So in some
- cases you may be able to open improperly-typed files with your
- applications.
-
- • To clean up desktop clutter caused by all the Drop Rob-Boxes (and other
- applications and aliases which support "dropping" (Most programs that open
- documents nowadays), put Catapult in a folder with your Drop Rob-Boxes
- and aliases to your drop-able applications. Then put an alias of Catapult
- onto your desktop. I remove the Catapult icon (DeIcon works for me) so
- only the name Catapult appears on the desktop. DeIcon just gives a blank
- custom icon to selected items.
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- USING DROP BOXES
- =================
- Drop Boxes are applications (drag-and-drop utilities) which can take advantage
- of System 7.0’s Apple Events. To use them, just drag a file over the application
- icon just as you would drag a file over a folder to move it into that directory.
- The Drop Box is then opened and processing is done. The program then quits.
- You can also throw in whole directories and disks. You don’t have to throw in
- just one, either. Select a whole bunch of files, directories, or disks, or any
- combination of the three, and dump them in. Any aliases dropped directly into
- a Drop Box (not inside a directory) are resolved by the Finder and thus their
- target (parent) is used.
-
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR
- ==================
- If you use this program, have any comments or suggestions, or ideas for
- other programs, please write me a note, e-mail or post.
-
- Robert Gibson E-Mail:
- RR#1 Carrying Place CIS: 71261,2236
- Ontario, CANADA Internet: 71261.2236@compuserve.com
- KØK 1LØ
-
- This program is not to be included in any software collections other than
- BBSs and on-line services (e.g. CD ROMs, PD Disks, etc.) without prior
- written consent from the author. Any distribution MUST MUST MUST
- include this document, unmodified.
-
- Catapult copyright © 1992 Robert Gibson. All rights reserved.