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From: d88-jwa@nada.kth.se (Jon Watte)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Is multifinder or finder running??
Message-ID: <2520@draken.nada.kth.se>
Date: 11 Dec 89 16:42:21 GMT
References: <17708@ea.ecn.purdue.edu> <9190@hoptoad.uucp> <17695@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> <9247@hoptoad.uucp>
Reply-To: d88-jwa@nada.kth.se (Jon W{tte)
Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
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In article <9247@hoptoad.uucp> tim@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Maroney) writes:
>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??  

>>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

>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

Well, up to system 6.x, the second-to-last apple menu item is a
gray line. From system 7 and up, you're running MF. Period.

(Or, you might check for the precense of icons in any of the Apple menu's
items, or for the name "Finder" when CurApName != Finder, or for the
number of gray lines being >2 or...)

Happy hacking ! Apple doesn't support this, of course :-)

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