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- Welcome to Fiend.app, V1.0, by David Lambert, June, 1994.
-
- This program is essentially a dock and shelf extender, with a few (perhaps several)
- nice frills.
-
- What does it do? Well, it has two basic functions: first, it creates a shelf that
- covers the entire desktop. Second it provides you with a multi-level, extensible
- dock. I have endeavored to make both of these pieces approximate the default
- interface behavior as best I could, without spending so much time on it that I'd have
- to charge for it. Oh, it also incorporates BackSpace (see the main menu), which Alex
- Cone demanded.
-
- It started out as "a couple of minor enhancements" to MonsterShelf.app, written by
- Brian Pinkerton (whose address is [bp@cs.washington.edu]).
-
- Several weeks of continuing "minor enhancements" later (as well as feature requests
- and demands from my friends Alex Cone [abc@object.com] and Ed Wright [address
- withheld], both of whom, practically speaking, made the app what it is today)
- resulted in (among other things):
- A multi-level, resizable dock
- Pasteboard support
- Multiple file dropping
- Image backgound with tiling
- Backspace support
- Autolaunching
- App launch status tracking
-
- You can find brief instructions by using the "Info->Help" menu - it's not real NeXT
- help, but it's better than no instructions at all.
-
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:
- I would like to thank Brian Pinkerton for placing his code in the public domain, and
- providing the inspiration (and some of the underlying structure) for Fiend.
-
- Huge thanks to Ed Wright and Alex Cone for their unrelenting feature demands, as well
- as their tolerance of being given incompatible file formats with every alpha release.
-
- Thanks to Alex Cone also for providing the button images for the Fiend Dock icon.
-
- LEGALESE:
-
- This program and the associated code come with no warranty of any kind. You assume
- full risk and responsibility for their use. Permission is hereby granted to freely
- redistribute the Fiend program and source code, and to use it for any purpose
- whatsoever.
-
- FINAL NOTES:
-
- I hope that you find this app useful and/or entertaining. If you publish this app or
- its code on a CD-ROM, I think that it would be courteous to send me a copy of the
- CD-ROM, but you are not bound to do so. I have really worked hard on this app, so
- I'll be taking a break on it for a while (except for fixing truly egregious bugs). If
- you really like it, or if you want to inspire new features or enhancements, you may
- feel free to send me ten bucks. |[;->
-
- Peace.
-
- David C. Lambert, 9 June, 1994
- dcl@homer.uu.panix.com
- (NeXTMail, of course)
-