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From: leonardr@svc.portal.com (Leonard Rosenthol)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: How to hide the menubar (again)
Message-ID: <1990Dec6.011554.14016@svc.portal.com>
Date: 6 Dec 90 01:15:54 GMT
References: <13513@uswat.UUCP>
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In article <13513@uswat.UUCP>, russell@uswat.uswest.com (Russell Greenlee)
writes:
> I know that this has been thrashed out here in the past, but I don't
> remember the outcome. I have been doing this by changing the GrayRgn
> and setting the height of the menu bar to 0. This seems to work fine
> on a Mac II, Mac Plus, or SE, but it leads to system crashes on an fx.
> If anyone knows of a better way to do this, I'd love to hear it. How
> does Hypercard do it?
> 
	You ALMOST have it right, but you are doing more work than you have
to - and you can let the system do some for you too..
	First store off the current mBarHeight ($BAA) so that you can restore
it later on - NEVER assume it is 20 as it can vary on other Script Systems.
Then set the mBarHeight to 0 and call DrawMenuBar().  But calling DrawMenuBar,
you let the system do the work of changing GrayRgn (and other stuff).  Try
it, you'll like it!
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