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From: daven@svc.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Sublaunching ???
Message-ID: <1990Dec12.201718.27307@svc.portal.com>
Date: 12 Dec 90 20:17:18 GMT
References: <1990Dec11.004705.20759@dhw68k.cts.com>
Organization: Software Ventures
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In article <1990Dec11.004705.20759@dhw68k.cts.com> finnegan@dhw68k.cts.com (Greg Finnegan) writes:
>
>We just added sublaunching to our application and everything works
>fine so far.  However, if you sublaunch to another application (with
>a document that you want to open) and that application is already
>running under MultiFinder, the application just comes to the front.
>Apparently, MultiFinder does some low level mucking to allow
>sublaunching to open apps with a document.
>
>Anybody have any ideas how I might do the same?

What MultiFinder does at the low level is "fake" menu hits on "Open..." in
the file menu. I assume it also then fakes out the application's call to
SFGetFile to just return the document that needs to be opened.

Apple requires applications with unusual "Open" menu items supply a resource
in the application of type MSTR. These tell MultiFinder what the menu items
actual text is.


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