Re: Hiding stay-open applets
Re: Hiding stay-open applets
- Subject: Re: Hiding stay-open applets
- From: "Marc K. Myers" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2000 20:00:57 -0400
- Organization: [very little]
Marc Myers wrote:
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Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 14:41:49 -0400
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From: "Marc K. Myers" <email@hidden>
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Subject: Re: Hiding stay-open applets
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I got an answer to this one from an outside source. If you open the
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applet in ResEdit and open it's 'SIZE' resource(s), you can set a flag
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called "background only", which turns the applet into a background
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process and takes it out of the application menu.
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The downside is that a background process is "faceless" by nature, so if
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you need to get information into or out of it you have to do it by
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communicating through another program.
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Marc [10/27/00 2:41:35 PM]
I'm afraid I spoke too soon. Now that I've tried this technique I find
that it leaves the name of the script in the applications menu. All
that goes away is the icon in the menu. That and any ability for the
script to communicate with the user! It's back to the drawing board for
this project!
If anyone has any experience with transforming a stay-open script
applicationinto a faceless background application, please let me know
how it's done.