I knew I had seen something on the net.  I can point you to an infomac
archive that sets up a system menu.

Maybe someone has time to look at this in-depth.


http://hyperarchive.lcs.mit.edu/HyperArchive/Archive/dev/src/system-menu
-c.hqx


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   'dev/src/system-menu-c.hqx'  Uploaded 07/27/95   237439 bytes
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 1995 01:34:00 -0400From: Matt Slot
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Subject: SysMenu Sample Source

SysMenu is a shell project that demonstrates how to create and manage a
system menu next to the Balloon Help menu. The project has been updated
to compile under Metrowerks 6.0 compiler using Universal Headers.
There are 2 additional goodies included in this package:

The "INIT Dispatcher" folder contains a sample project that demonstrates
how
to create a FAT system extension. See the appropriate files for more
info on
the technique.

The "FAT sysmenu" folder contains 2 projects that rely on the Dispatcher
to
manage a common code file between 68K and PPC compilers.
There are other things I could have added to this project, but I think
this
stuff is general and clean enough for others to use. Drop me any
comments and suggestions... heck, I may even use 'em!Matt Slot
(fprefect@...) - 7/26/95
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