Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!pequod.cso.uiuc.edu!dorner From: dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: MultiFinder vs WDEF Message-ID: <1991Jan4.160004.18483@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 4 Jan 91 16:00:04 GMT References: <3686@uakari.primate.wisc.edu> Sender: news@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (News) Organization: University of Illinois at U-C Lines: 29 In article <3686@uakari.primate.wisc.edu> bin@primate.wisc.edu writes: >I notice the documentation for Eudora claims that switching is allowed >during alerts. I don't know how that's done, perhaps by some tricky >switching of the window type...but evidently there is a way to defeat >MultiFinder's behavior. I saw this in the MPW dox: Note: Although you cannot move Shell windows or pull down menus while a tool is running, remember that you can switch applications by clicking the application icon in the menu bar. So I settled on that method for allowing switches during modals; you click on the right side of the menu bar. (What's sauce for the goose is after all sauce for the gander.) I have a filterProc that sees such clicks, and then calls a function that does switching. Switching is done by searching the apple menu for the name of my application, and then calling OpenDeskAcc on the next item in the menu (it's a touch more complicated than that, since I do handle hidden apps and being at the end of the application list). I could post my switching function if anyone is interested. It is definitely a hack. I have no idea if it will work under system 7, having never seen a copy of that Holy Item. I have no idea if it will even be necessary under system 7. -- Steve Dorner, U of Illinois Computing Services Office Internet: s-dorner@uiuc.edu UUCP: uunet!uiucuxc!uiuc.edu!s-dorner