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From: rgm@sandstorm.Berkeley.EDU (Robert Menke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Shutdown sequence question
Summary: How does the finder do it?
Keywords: shutdown manager finder quit
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Date: 7 Dec 89 08:35:40 GMT
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Reply-To: rgm@OCF.Berkeley.EDU (Robert Menke)
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This is beginning to bother me.  How does the Finder (under
MultiFinder) send messages to each of the open applications to close
when the user selects "Shut Down" from the "Special" menu?

Obviously it is not a patch to the _Shutdown macro (or is it? I'm not
sure how patches are handled under MultiFinder) nor does it seem to be
procedures installed via ShutDwnInstall (or do procedures installed
only execute if the application containing them is the active one?
That would seem silly).

This is bothersome to me because I use MPW 2.0.2 as a CLI more often
than I use the finder, and it's irritating to have to flip out to the
finder to quit (even MPW's "shutdown" command fails to notify
applications).

If this has been covered, send answers via e-mail, etc, etc.


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