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From: nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Windows menu and DrawMenuBar
Message-ID: <195@castle.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 21 Aug 89 11:46:15 GMT
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In article <193@castle.ed.ac.uk>, I write:
>In article <8320@hoptoad.uucp>, tim@hoptoad (Tim Maroney) writes:
>>The problem is that under System 6.0, it is neccessary to call
>>DrawMenuBar after adding any items to a menu.  If you don't, they will
>>not be visible to the user during MenuSelect.
>
>I think this comes from the beginning of time (viz. Inside Mac I),
>rather than being anything new and System-6.0-ish...?

Whoops, I misread Tim's original comment. You have to call DrawMenuBar
after an insert/delete menu, but I've never needed to call it after
inserting/deleting/changing a menu *item*. I think the problem must be
elsewhere...?

		Nick.
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Nick Rothwell,	Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science, Edinburgh.
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