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From: sonenbli@oxy.edu (Andrew D. Sonenblick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Why do Managers fail when called from code resources?
Message-ID: <52218@tiger.oxy.edu>
Date: 6 Oct 89 17:09:47 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA  90041
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      Ok, I posted the preliminary problem yesterday (and thanks to all
      those millions of subscribers who replied to it.... sorry, please
      excuse my sarcasm but this problems has induced premature hair
      loss, teeth grinding, and general self-disfiguring practices.)
      The problem began with MenuManager calls from code resources
      (which are locked, detached, unpurgable and in the system zone).
      Some would seem to work (such as GetMHandle) and others wouldn't
      (such as when I used the MenuHandle from said GetMHandle call
      to InsMenuItem( ... ) with the result that a garbage string was
      *appended* to the *worong* menu.) Now, I find that other Managers
      also fail to operate properly.  If my code resources put up a
      window the WindowMgr seems to whimsically decide whether to put
      up the window or not!  Dialogs don't works properly, either.
      Any time I use Pascal Str255 (I'm using LSC) such as in the call
      DrawString(&myString) I get nothing (the big null, nil, void) or
      garbage!

      Now you can understand my frustrations---the Frigging ToolBox is
      not operating as it expected to!	I cannot rely on it when calling
      from a code resource (How am I to trust that my "outline" for
      making an INIT, a patch, etc will not end with me spending hours
      coding only to have the managers fail and ruin my programming life.)

      Anyway, I appreciate everyone for letting me vent my $(%#@!  If
      Anyone has aaaannnyyy ideas what the heck is going on, please
      reply (to me is fine, perhaps to the net to appraise everyone else
      of the problem/solution is better.)  But if you have any insight,
      please respond and save a fellow Mac enthusiast/programmer from
      premature senility!  Thanks again, Ando Sonenblick.  My address
      is: sonenbli@oxy.edu

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What ever happened to the good ole days when we were all dinosaurs and would
wallow around eating... Ok, so half the time we ate each other, but other than
THAT, did you have any complaints?

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