I’m addicted to Gus‘ Menu Accelerator. I no longer fumble through menu’s looking for what I want. I just start typing. It’s beautiful. The only problem was that it wasn’t a Universal Binary. I’m not sure if Input Managers work through rosetta or not, but even if they did, I wanted a native version. Gus kindly provides the sources for flyopts so this should just be a recompile, right? Well, prettty much. The only snag came from the fact that the liblua.a and liblualib.a that he distributes are ppc .a’s. After compiling and trying three different versions of lua I finally got FlyOpts to compile for i386 (I didn’t bother trying for Universal, just went straight for i386 only). The trick is to download lua-5.0.2 (the latest is 5.1, but that didn’t work for me), ‘make’ that and then copy the .a’s over flyopts liblua*.a’s. Now compile flyopts and you should have the FlyOpts.bundle. The next thing I did was copy the FlyOpts directory from my PowerBook (this got me the ‘Info’ file I needed) and plopped it on my iMac’s InputManagers folder. Then I overwrote the FlyOpts.bundle. Logged out. Logged in. Done. Thanks for sharing FlyOpts with us Gus!

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