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From: piggy@tubopal.UUCP (Piggysoft)
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Subject: Re: Avoiding "Some documents could not be opened or printed"....
Keywords: Macintosh, ResEdit, MultiFinder
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Date: 13 Jun 90 21:10:03 GMT
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In article <GZ=$XK#@ads.com> jtn@ADS.COM () writes:
>One of the most annoying things about the Mac is how it handles the
>opening of documents.  If I 2-click on a document, this launches the
>appropriate application and all is fine with the world.  Now I go back
>to the finder and 2-click on another document expecting this document
>to be opened also, but instead I get an alert box that says "Some
>documents could not be opened or printed."
>--
>John T. Nelson -- The Conrail Locmotive / Harpsichord fusion project
>
>Advanced Decision Systems	(703) 243-1611
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From the systems point of view launching an application with documents is
something completly different than opening a document 'into' a running app.

In pre MF times this wasn't even possible, now MF tricks the application
into thinking that the user selected the "Open..." menu item and then
short sheets the call to the File Dialog to return the double-clicked
file name.

The same method is used to quit all running applications at "Shut down"
time.

The problem is that some apps do no have the standard menu entrys for
"Open..." and "Quit".

You can add 'mstr' resources to your application to help MF find ;-)
the correct menu-items.  Each of these resources contains a string
(open with template 'STR ' in ResEdit). The ID's of the resources must
be from the following list.


	'mstr' (100)    Quit-menu usually "File"
	'mstr' (101)    Quit-item usually "Quit"
	'mstr' (102)    Open-menu usually "File"
	'mstr' (103)    Open-item usually "Open..."

You could add resources with this type and id's to match the Menu strings.

-- fabian
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                                                             Fabian Hahn

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