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From: martin@cs.uchicago.edu
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Subject: Re: Adding MENU generates "Unexpected error 69320382, [SORRY]"
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Date: 30 Jan 91 07:18:16 GMT
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In-Reply-To: gurgle@well.sf.ca.us (Pete Gontier)

I see I should have been more clear about my intentions.  I want something
that is like MacroMaker, in that its menu is added to *every* menubar.  So
my technique is to get the menu at INIT time and add it to the menubar via
a patch applied before MultiFinder gets to the traps.

In article <22935@well.sf.ca.us>, gurgle@well (Pete Gontier) writes:

>Whoa there! You don't need to do an _InitGraf in a DA! And if you do find
>a reason to do it, certainly don't do it relative to A5, because you're
>likely to trash your host application's QuickDraw. If you really need to
>do it (and you probably don't), make sure you have your own space for
>QuickDraw globals and send THAT to _InitGraf.

I thought an InitGraf might be necessary before InitFonts, since InitFonts
seems necessary for the GetMenu I do at INIT time.  But even so, I seem to
get address errors in GetFontInfo depending on the phase of the moon...?

>Now, about this DetachResource business: why? The Menu Manager is
>perfectly happy with a resource handle. I've never bothered to detach a
>menu resource, and although I can't think of anything specifically wrong
>with it offhand, I think I would err on the conservative side.

Because after the INIT is done, it will close its file and I believe the
resource will go away unless it has been detached.

Charles Martin // martin@cs.uchicago.edu