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From: beard@ux5.lbl.gov (Patrick C Beard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Menu Mangler & ThC 4.0 Nightmare
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Date: 16 Dec 90 10:31:34 GMT
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In article <1990Dec16.034906.25332@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> jtt@cunixd.cc.columbia.edu (James T. Tanis) writes:
#I've been banging my head up against this problem for a while now--
#
#I've got a (popup) menu that gets modified during the course of execution.
#At a certain point, I'd liek to reset it to it's original state.
#I've tried everything I can think of, but only get errors. It seems that
#the menu is gotten from the Resource correctly the first time. 
#then, when it is time to reset it, I release the resource, and load it
#again.
#now, the item list is read in correctly, but the defProc is not, thus the
#sizes are not calculated correctly.
#
#HAS ANYBODY BEEN SUCESSFUL AT THIS SORT OF THING?
#
#Thanks!
#-JT
# 

Be sure to zero out the defProc field of the MenuHandle before writing it
out.  On 68000 Mac's a non-zero defProc will cause a crash.

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