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From: gandalf@apple.com (Martin Gannholm)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Adding MENU generates "Unexpected error 69320382, [SORRY]"
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Date: 30 Jan 91 18:40:24 GMT
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References:<1991Jan26.210319.3409@midway.uchicago.edu> <22935@well.sf.ca.us>

In article <22935@well.sf.ca.us> gurgle@well.sf.ca.us (Pete Gontier) 
writes:
> In article <1991Jan26.210319.3409@midway.uchicago.edu> 
martin@cs.uchicago.edu writes:
> >For some reason Hypercard (also Microsoft Word) doesn't like the MENU
> >that I'm adding from my INIT/DRVR:
> >
> >The INIT that does an OpenDeskAcc.  In the open routine of the DRVR, I
> >do (abbreviated):
> >
> >    PEA -4(A5)
> >    _InitGraf
> >    InitFonts;
> >    GetMenu
> >    DetachResource
> 
> 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.

Exactly.

Gontier goes on to say:
> Finally, re: MS Word and HyperCard, good luck. They've always been 
notorious
> as rule breakers.

OK, the original version of HyperCard was a rule breaker in a big way. I'd 
just like to clear the record that we did everything we could to follow 
the rules in HyperCard 2.0. A fair piece of the 2.0 effort was in 
rewriting many parts in order to follow the rules of IM. Some parts that 
spring to mind are: all file manager stuff; all use of QuickDraw 
(remember, Bill wrote QuickDraw too, so he knew how to bend the rules); 
menu handling; window handling...and a lot more.

Martin Gannholm
HyperCard 2.0 Engineer
Apple Computer

Exclaimer!!!   I never said it...Nobody heard me say it...You can't prove 
anything!