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From: d88-jwa@nada.kth.se (Jon Watte)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Shutdown sequence question
Keywords: shutdown manager finder quit
Message-ID: <2500@draken.nada.kth.se>
Date: 8 Dec 89 16:10:57 GMT
References: <1989Dec7.083540.3798@agate.berkeley.edu> <4193@sbcs.sunysb.edu>
Reply-To: d88-jwa@nada.kth.se (Jon W{tte)
Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
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In article <4193@sbcs.sunysb.edu> vallon@sbmiclr.CS.SunySB.EDU (Justin Vallon) writes:
>In article <1989Dec7.083540.3798@agate.berkeley.edu>,

>Shut Down from the Finder does not need to be patched.  Finder (when running
>in MultiFinder mode) "knows" that it has to notify open applications about
>a pending restart/shutdown.  What the Finder does is it looks for the "Quit"
>item in the "File" menu of all open applications and calls it (it can do
>that, you know... it's MultiFinder).  [I also remember that the defaults for
>these strings can be overrided by some resource]  When all open applications

Yes, you can. I frequently have to do this because a) the program didn't
have this resource or b) the resource was not translated to swedish
although the menus were... :-(

>So, how to fix it?  If you have a Macro program (MacroMaker :-(, QuicKeys,
>etc), create a Macro that clicks on the trash-can (to switch to the Finder

Why not choose "Finder" from the Apple menu ? QuickKeys certainly lets you
do this, and I believe other do as well.

You could have an FKEY doing OpenDeskAcc("\PFinder") but then you'd
be looking for trouble !

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