[dr. zoidberg]

this would be sooo great. let´s make the best OS on earth even better ... die SPROD, DIEEE.....!!!

any chance?

[Mac Guru]

*ahem* MightyMouse...

[Sage]

Originally posted by Mac Guru:
*ahem* MightyMouse...

Personally, as I've said in other threads, I'd gladly pay for shareware, but I'm a 15-year-old kid with hyper-paranoid parents, so getting them to pay a stranger over the web ain't going to happen (which is a shame, since there are a number of shareware apps I'd like to have, and I'd like to donate some money to several of the freeware developers as well as the big-name themers).

[NetworkShadow]

Know how it feels man, it's good to be 18 now. ^^
Anyway, I don't really like mighty mouse, all the cursers are ugly... the only thing it's good for is the beach ball replacements.

[darrick]

i've been trying to be relatively hack free recently, but i am pretty sure blobber still works in 10.6.

http://forums.macnn.com/showthread.p...hlight=blobber

i cannot say how it will work under panther. i did find the developer open to keep it going generally, 'though it is not, of course, his main focus.

[smeger]

Originally posted by Sage:
Personally, as I've said in other threads, I'd gladly pay for shareware, but I'm a 15-year-old kid with hyper-paranoid parents, so getting them to pay a stranger over the web ain't going to happen (which is a shame, since there are a number of shareware apps I'd like to have, and I'd like to donate some money to several of the freeware developers as well as the big-name themers).

Dunno if this makes a difference to your parents, but most shareware developers use third party systems for their payment processing. So the actual payment goes to a large, well-established company who's entire business model depends on having people trust them.

I use ESellerate. Kagi is also commonly used, as is BMT Micro.

[dr. zoidberg]

Originally posted by NetworkShadow:
Anyway, I don't really like mighty mouse, all the cursers are ugly... the only thing it's good for is the beach ball replacements.

same opinion here. but still i would rather want to change a ressource for once instead of having a haxie running in the background all the time just for the purpose of changing that stupid spinning blob.

[mrtew]

Originally posted by NetworkShadow:
I don't really like mighty mouse, all the cursers are ugly... the only thing it's good for is the beach ball replacements.

I don't agree! There is one cursor that is worth the entire price of Mighty Mouse! Soooooo COOL! :-]

[NetworkShadow]

Originally posted by mrtew:
I don't agree! There is one cursor that is worth the entire price of Mighty Mouse! Soooooo COOL! :-]

lol I hope your being sarcastic. It reminds me of that stupid asteroids cursor for Windows.

[smeger]

Originally posted by dr. zoidberg:
same opinion here. but still i would rather want to change a ressource for once instead of having a haxie running in the background all the time just for the purpose of changing that stupid spinning blob.

I hope you don't think that this is how haxies work. In the case of Mighty Mouse, at least, the haxie is idle unless you tell it to switch to a different cursor. Idle means its using 0% of your CPU.

It depends on the APE module you're talking about, of course, but the above statement is pretty true in general. Writing APEs is a moderately advanced topic, and doing stuff that consumes CPU without being prompted to do so by some specific user action is generally something that moderately advanced programmers tend to shy away from strongly.

Ya dig?

Whether to use APEs or not seems to be somewhat of a religious war that I don't want to get into, but thinking that Mighty Mouse is sitting around sucking up your CPU while you're working is just straight-up wrong.

Using an unsupported method that could break at any moment to patch a binary file that your computer requires in order to be bootable (which, to the best of my knowledge, is the technique used by Beachball & Blobber) just ain't too bright in my book. Compare and contrast: something goes horribly wrong with Beachball/Blobber - you get to reinstall your OS. Something goes horribly wrong with Mighty Mouse - log in while holding <shift> and trash the APE module.

Seems like a pretty easy choice.

Disclaimer: I'm the author of Mighty Mouse, so I'm obviously biased. And right.

[Sage]

Originally posted by smeger:
Dunno if this makes a difference to your parents, but *snip*

Unfortunately, probably not. Mainly my mom&nbsp;-&nbsp;Asian moms are pretty ridiculously stubborn. (My dad on the other hand could care less).

And trust me, I'd donate to you for ThemePark in a heartbeat... that thing's worth way more than 20 bucks.

Originally posted by dr. zoidberg:
but still i would rather want to change a ressource for once instead of having a haxie running in the background all the time just for the purpose of changing that stupid spinning blob.

Hmmm, on that note, is there a resource/picture file that can be changed, or does it involve some complicated binary junk that I really don't want to delve into?

[dr. zoidberg]

Originally posted by smeger:
Disclaimer: I'm the author of Mighty Mouse, so I'm obviously biased. And right.

hehe. thanks for your comment. maybe i´ll open my mind up on that one, especially since i will have windowshadeX installed again once it is out for da pantha, which means that i will have APE running anyway. which doesn´t change the fact that most of the mightymouse-cursor are fugly, but that´s hardly your fault.

[dr. zoidberg]

Originally posted by Sage:
Hmmm, on that note, is there a resource/picture file that can be changed, or does it involve some complicated binary junk that I really don't want to delve into?

yes and yes, i would say. prior to beachball/blobber there have been instructions floating around on how to patch the resource manually (using the CLI), but i´m sure that these are outdated already ...

[smeger]

Originally posted by dr. zoidberg:
yes and yes, i would say. prior to beachball/blobber there have been instructions floating around on how to patch the resource manually (using the CLI), but i´m sure that these are outdated already ...

It's not a simple "put a new graphic file at this location deal". You need to open your graphics file in Photoshop, do some weird conversions, do some color remapping, and then use a hex editor to patch a binary executable, making absolutely sure you don't patch in the wrong place or patch even one byte too many or too few.

And if the version of the file you're trying to patch has changed and you don't realize it, BOOM, you're reinstalling your OS.

Insane...