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NoLabel cdev

Posted by: Crutch on 2020-10-04 05:24:29 Always thought the Label menu was useless?  Running a black-and-white Mac where you'd never dream of labeling something "Hot", "Cool", "In Progress" or heaven forbid "Project 1"?  Prefer System 7, but miss that sleek 1984 menubar with just the old-school File, Edit, View, Special?  Always wished you could hide the Label menu from your sight forever? NOW YOU CAN. Presenting NoLabel cdev, which I hacked together this weekend to satisfy my own silly aesthetic preferences, now on the Garden. It works by patching _InsertMenu.  If an app whose name matches the lomem global 'FinderName' tries to add a menu called 'Label' to the MenuList, NoLabel's patch sticks it into the hierarchical part of the menu list instead, so you never see it, but it's still there in case the app needs it.  I'll post the source code at some point if anyone wants to see it (written in THINK C 5.0). The pic shows my SE/30 running 7.5.5 with the NoLabel control panel open and absolutely no 'Label' menu whatsoever. https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/nolabel

Posted by: superjer2000 on 2020-10-04 05:38:28 Love it!!!  This is a great idea - Even on a color Mac I've never used that label menu.  Glad to see someone has finally put it out of its misery!

Posted by: Byrd on 2020-10-05 07:10:50 Thanks for creating the CDEV - nope, never liked nor used the Label menu bar - now gone!

Posted by: olePigeon on 2020-10-05 11:49:26 @Crutch  Don't know if you're a fan of Mystery Science Theater 3000, but I'd like to suggest using Coily the Spring Sprite on the CDEV icon.  :lol:

Posted by: Crutch on 2023-10-15 05:01:03 2023 update: TidyMenus improves NoLabel to allow hide/showing the Balloon Help menu and to toggle menu display without a restart, see https://68kmla.org/bb/index.php?threads/presenting-tidymenus.45619/

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