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From: oster@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu (David Phillip Oster)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Simulating a Menu Bar with Pop-Up Menus
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Date: 2 Dec 89 01:25:09 GMT
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In article <2880@murtoa.cs.mu.oz.au> rob@murtoa.UUCP (Robert Wallen) writes:
>I did see a message once from someone at Symantec claiming that they had
>solved the problem by some sort of stub MDEF that called the standard. However,
>the last time I checked Think C still had the problem (move a window close to
>the bottom of the screen and hold option down while clicking the title bar.)

I just checked THINK C V.4 for this. It crashed with a bus error.  
It is undoubtedly a bug in Apple's code.
On the other hand, my custom MDEFs have never had an problem with this.
I've even written pop-up grid menus that can scroll left and right as well
as up and down.


> The mac is a detour in the inevitable march of mediocre computers.
> drs@bnlux0.bnl.gov (David R. Stampf)
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