Contextual Menu Manager:
    Lock / Unlock
    Change Type & Creator
    QT Still Graphics

  EPS Preview Converter
  PICT / BMP
  QT Float(tm) Screen Saver
  XTND Translators

Windows 95/98/NT
  QT Float(tm) Screen Saver

CMM Installation:

All CMM plugins should be placed with your other Contextual Menu plugins, usually in the Contextual Menu Items folder. To install on System 8.0 or later, drag the plugin onto the system folder when it is closed and restart.

If your Contextual Menu Items folder contains the following plugins: LockCMPlugin and ChangeTypeCreatorCMPlugin, you can delete them the are replaced by newer version called: Lock CMM and ChangeTypeCreator CMM.

All errors are reported by a Beep.

CMM's Requirements: PowerPC and System 8.0 or later.
Localized version available: in German, and French.
The following CMM have been tested for Year 2000.

Hold the Control Key down and click on highlighted folder(s) and/or file(s). Contextual Menu Manager (CMM) will give you an option menu to Lock or Unlock folders and/or files relative to current settings. Note: Folder can only be locked if file sharing is enabled.

The following still image formats are supported for reading the images:

QuickTime v2.5 supports: JPEG, GIF, PhotoShop 2.5/3.0/4.0, SGI .rgb, MacPaint, QuickTime, PICT

QuickTime v3.0 also adds support for: Progressive JPEG, PNG, TIFF, TARGA, QuickDraw GX (if installed), Windows BMP

Hold the Control Key down and click on supported still image file formats. Contextual Menu Manager (CMM) will give you an option menu to:

1. When you select only one file. You get an option to copying the still image to the clipboard using QuickTime 2.5 or later. Or copy to the clibboard the still image's thumbnail of the image (requires QuickTime 3.0 or later).

   

   Possible errors:

   - Out of memory or unsupport file format.

2. Converting images to other formats (requires QuickTime 3.0 or later).
   

   The correct windows extension will be added to the file name.

   With QuickTime 3.0 installed you can convert from any readable QT 3.0 format and save it in the following QuickTime supported formats: JPEG, BMP, PICT, QuickTime Still Image and Photoshop format.

   QuickTime 4.0 adds new output formats and options when using the QT Export Dialog.... The Options button now including converting to different color depths including gray scale as well as setting file format options. Export formats support by QuickTime 4.0 are:

   

Requires: QT 2.5 or later. Some features require QuickTime 3.0 or later.

Possible errors:

- Unsupported input format..

- When suffix is added, if a duplicate file name results, the file is left untranslated.

Licensing:

QT Still Graphics CMM translator is licenced per computer.

Lock CMM and ChangeTypeCreator CMM are Freeware. They must be distributed with QT Still Graphics CMM plugin and documenation.

For site licenses and bundling QT Still Graphics CMM with your projects contact Mark Fleming <markf@kagi.com > for pricing. An unlimited educational site license for these CMM plugin are available for $100.00US / School District or University.

The Images of the World - Vol#1 CD-ROM contains one licence for QT Still Graphics CMM translator.

Contact information:

R. Mark Fleming
521 Albert Street
Kingston, Ontario,
Canada, K7K 4M5

Web: <www.imagemontage.com> Email: <markf@kagi.com >

ChangeTypeCreator CMM plugin is a complementatary of the CTC application. It does not allow you to do as much as CTC, but it is more convenet for general graphics and selection of other commmon files.

It can Add or Remove Winodws three change suffix on one file or multiply files. For the Macintosh Picture file call "picture1" the plugin will give you the option on the left. For the file "myImage.gif", the option on the right is given.

Possible errors:

- Duplicate file name and file is left unchanged or file names that are too long.

Example of using ChangeTypeCreator CMM Plugin to correct the file type and creator of an Acrobat Reader file downloading from the web. Since web site was not configured with the PDF mime type and the user save the file to disk (as you may with to view the file off-line later) the file would be more useful, if you could double click on the icon and have it open Acrobat Reader directly. To correct this with CTC Plugin install do the following:

1. Select the file to correct
2. Control-Click on one of the files.
3. Select Set File Type and Creator menu item.

The second step above results in the Contextual Menu being shown below. and with the corrected file information the ICON is correct and the file is double clickable

Any valid Image file (and a few other known file types) wth the wrong file type, the CM plugin will attempt to determine the File Format and give you an option to correct the file type.

The file types: 'TEXT', '????', 'BINA' are common incorrect file type for file transfered from other types of computers.

QT Graphics Importer XTND translator, and other applications require correct Macintosh file types to be set to be able to open and use the images.

See Change Type and Creator (CTC) applicaton documentation for list of file types that the internet header check knows about.