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From: tim@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Maroney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Is multifinder or finder running??
Message-ID: <9247@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: 10 Dec 89 18:51:37 GMT
References: <17708@ea.ecn.purdue.edu> <9190@hoptoad.uucp> <17695@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU>
Reply-To: tim@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Maroney)
Organization: Eclectic Software, San Francisco
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In article <17708@ea.ecn.purdue.edu> moyman@ee.ecn.purdue.edu (James M Moya)
writes:
>>>How do you determine (if possible) whether finder or multifinder is running
>>>from within an application??  

>In article <9190@hoptoad.uucp> tim@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Maroney) writes:
>>Here's how.  First, if the system is 7.0 or higher, then MultiFinder is
>>running; MultiFinder is always running on system 7.0 or higher.  You
>>find out what system is running by calling SysEnvirons.  Second, if the
>>system is 6.0.x, then MultiFinder may or may not be running; check it
>>by seeing whether the last entry in the Apple menu is "About
>>MultiFinder..."

In article <17695@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> earleh@eleazar.dartmouth.edu
(Earle R. Horton) writes:
>The last check won't do much for you if the last item in the Apple
>menu is "A-propos de MultiFinder," "Uber den MultiFinder," or
>something in Kanji, Devanagari, Urdu, Hebrew, Arabic, Tamil,
>Icelandic, Spanish, ...

Sure it will.  I hope you aren't running around embedding string
constants in your code!  At the time when you update all the STR# and
STR resources for the new language, you would also change the string
for "About MultiFinder..."

>You cannot get this information from the Apple menu.

Sure you can, if you're programming your strings correctly.
-- 
Tim Maroney, Mac Software Consultant, sun!hoptoad!tim, tim@toad.com

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