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Max No of App Details?
Authored by: petey on Feb 07, '02 02:55:34AM

rather than fragment into 2 dialogs, get rid of the text section headers. that gives room for a few more apps. using my layout, i can fit 9 - 11 depending on length of the app names.

and Porkchop,

i like your code much better than mine, but i like my display layout much better than yours. keep it sparse and easy to read at a glance. and keep apps under 10MB left aligned.

now that you've learned AS, will you please learn AS Studio? all i want for Christmas is to have this info always sitting in a window on the desktop. i'm limping along with 384MB, which really isn't enough for this OS, so i need to do manual memory management. actually, all i want for Christmas is for 512MB laptop RAM modules to get cheap.



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Max No of App Details?
Authored by: porkchop_d_clown on Feb 08, '02 10:53:35AM

heh. No sympathy from me - I'm using a 256mb iBook.

Believe it or not, I was downloading the developer tools when I read your message last night. Stayed up till 3 playing with it. (No, I have no life whatsoever. :-P) I've got something that's so-so about doing what you want. I couldn't get it to refresh at a fixed interval, AppleScript has an "on idle" event but doesn't seem to have an "on timeout" or "on delay" event.

So, the result is that (on my box) it refreshes at odd intervals, every 20-60 seconds or so.

OSXHints doesn't really have a place to submit binaries, so drop me a note to my username at mac.com and I'll reply with an executable for you to play with.



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