Process Manager

Process Manager 1.4.2 Copyright © 1995-99 Ammon Skidmore Skidperfect Software, Inc. <skidperfect@kagi.com> http://www.pair.com/ammon/skidperfect/ Freeware! Contents: About this module Description Feature summary Compatibility Troubleshooting Distribution Contacting the author Disclaimer • About this module: Description: Process Manager is a control strip module that allows you to view and switch with ease between your Mac's processes (running programs.) It works with Control Strip and is Extensions Strip Savvy. To install, place Process Manager in your Control Strip Modules folder. If you are using Extensions Strip, I like to place Process Manager in its own strip window positioned vertically at the top right of your main monitor. Process Manager is FAT binary, so PowerPC native code will load if you are using at least Extensions Strip 1.8 or Control Strip 2.0. Feature summary: • Simple usage is to click on an icon to switch between programs. If you drag files over a process icon, they will be opened within the chosen program. • Clicking and holding down the mouse on a process icon will display a menu allowing you to quit the program among other things. Selecting "Filter out this process" will hide the selected program from appearing in the list. • Clicking on the module with the command ( ) key down will display a menu that allows you to access the about box, preferences, and change the filter (the processes ignored from being drawn). • The About Box contains many tips for using Process Manager. The Preferences has various settings such as nine hot keys for switching between processes. It is pretty self-explanatory. • Extensive balloon help for the different processes. Hold down the SHIFT key and click on a process icon to display this. • Extensions Strip savvy. See the next section for the features this provides. Compatibility: Process Manager was designed to take advantage of the powerful features of Extensions Strip while retaining backward compatibility with Control Strip. Extensions Strip was originally written to overcome various technical limitations in the Control Strip API. So if you use Extensions Strip as your module host, you can do the following things: - Have hot keys. - Display large icons. - Display icons vertically. - Automatically update the length/height of the strip. - Drag a process icon outside of the strip (Control Strip prevents this when the Finder is in front). - Display an open/save dialog. - Send Apple Events from within non-Apple Event aware programs. - Display Balloon help from clicking. (Process Manager does this when you SHIFT-click on an icon. For some reason Control Strip fails to display the balloon.) - Resolve remote aliases intelligently. - If you click on a process icon while the CPU is busy, and then move the mouse away, Process Manager remembers where the mouse click was. The same holds true for clicks with modifier keys held down (PM always remembers what key was down if it was…