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From: djohnson@beowulf.ucsd.edu (Darin Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Mymenu, ET and SF!
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Date: 23 Oct 89 17:55:10 GMT
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In article <2259@nigel.udel.EDU> BPJ0%LEHIGH.BITNET@ibm1.cc.lehigh.edu (Bin, Lehigh and very Amiga.) writes:
>A couple of questions.
>
>Now here's the problem. Everything boots up as usual and I run Atalk
>from the mymenu menu option (any of the four).  Then when I exit Atalk
>the mymenu menus disappear.  If I type mymenu it says Updating menus ---
>ok.

I don't have ATalk, so I can't tell what it is doing, but I did write
MyMenu.  It looks suspiciously like Workbench is getting a NEWPREFS(?)
message.  When this happens, Workbench redraws/rebuilds its menus (assuming
someone may have changed the font).  It doesn't redraw MyMenu's menus,
since it doesn't know about them.  I tried working around this, but there
isn't an easy way to tell when Workbench is done with redrawing its
menus (other than waiting a second or two).

Best bet is to find out if ATalk is indeed sending a NEWPREFS (such as
changing serial parameters) when it starts up or exits, and find out if
it can be disabled.  (Probably unlikely, but it may be slightly possible
that if serial preferences are exactly what ATalk wants, it may not do
the NEWPREFS)

Chances are, I won't be writing a new version for quite awhile (I just
started Grad school after a 3 year hiatus, so I have 0 free-time).
But if you find out a solution, let me know so I can update the docs
and be informed the next time someone has this problem.


Darin Johnson
djohnson@ucsd.edu