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General CMPlugin Questions

1. Do these contextual menu plugins work in Mac OS X?

DeskPicChangerCMPlugin

1. Why does my Variation color change when I change my desktop picture?
2. Why do my Appearance settings change and/or appear to reset when I change my desktop picture?

Superjudge: a Monster Magnet screensaver

1. Does this work under Mac OS X's built-in screensaver support?

General CMPlugin Questions

1. Do these contextual menu plugins work in Mac OS X?

   Relevant Version: 1.x
   Question Posted: 8 March 2001
   Question Revised: 4 April 2005

   The 1.x versions of the plugins do not work under Mac OS X. The 2.x versions (released 4 April 2005) do work under Mac OS X 10.2.8 or later.

DeskPicChangerCMPlugin

1. Why does my Variation color change when I change my desktop picture?
   
2. Why do my Appearance settings change and/or appear to reset when I change my desktop picture?

   Relevant Version: 1.0
   Question Posted: 12 Feb 2001
   Question Revised: 20 Feb 2001

   Some users have reported that when they change their desktop picture via DeskPicChangerCMPlugin, their system Variation color changes/resets to Lavender (see the Appearance tab of the Appearance control panel). I have experienced this behavior myself. I don't believe any other setting changes.

   Unfortunately, I see no public means to deal with the Variation color information. It appears Apple has not provided a public/blessed means to manipulate (get/set) it. I see nothing in the C/C++ Appearance Manager API's (Universal Headers 3.4), and I see nothing in the Appearance control panel's AppleScript dictionary. Highlight color is there, Variation is not. I probably could hack around and find this information out, but I'd prefer to avoid that, since I'm sure Mac OS X will not support it.

   As of this writing, I do not know exactly what the problem is: some 3rd party corruption, some OS bug, something I'm doing. I don't know. My source code is out, and I believe this is the "correct" way to do things, but who knows what quirks lie.... I'm looking into it. If you experience this behavior, please contact me so I may obtain some information from you in hopes of trying to squash this bug. Thanx.

Superjudge: a Monster Magnet screensaver

1. Does this work under Mac OS X's built-in screensaver support?

   Relevant Version: 1.0
   Question Posted: 12 Feb 2001

   Currently, no it does not. I do intend to bring it over to Mac OS X one of these days (using the OS's built in screensaver support), maybe use some OpenGL. We'll see. I've even thought about converting it to an iTunes visual plugin, but who knows... all depends who has the time and energy. :-)