On Mar 1, 2005, at 2:36 PM, Laurent Daudelin wrote:
Bruce,
Do you think such utility would be useful and that a lot of people would use
it? I'm kinda wondering why the other of FinderPop never ported his
application to OS X...
I know I'd snap it up in a heartbeat.
Turly quit working on FinderPop because he and Apple had a parting of the ways (in many senses) when OS X came out.
<http://www.finderpop.com> (I don't think the sordid details are still there, though)
I know what it's got to do, conceptually:
on button-down-and-hold:
if the pointer has not moved in <settings> time then tell contextual menu manager to get busy;
The problem, of course is that it involves patching the mouse drivers, and that a wee bit deep into the guts for me, but it's a simple thing: "Look Mom No Hands" <http://www.toolsandtoys.com/> did it in 90K as an classic OS extension.
The ONLY thing LMNH does is pop up the contextual menu after you've held down the mouse button without moving for the time defined by the double-click setting. I paid for that, I'd pay for one in OS X.
It doesn't need all the other whiz-bang doodads these other apps need.
But if there would be some demand, that might be something I could wrote.
I've been doing Cocoa development since basically 1992, so I know a little
bit about developing on OS X...
Good, saves me the hassle of having to a heck of a lot just to do this....
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