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From: ech@cbnewsk.att.com (ned.horvath)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: How do you write a bg only/faceless app?
Message-ID: <1991Feb18.164753.17148@cbnewsk.att.com>
Date: 18 Feb 91 16:47:53 GMT
References: <12126@goofy.Apple.COM>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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From article <12126@goofy.Apple.COM>, by casseres@apple.com (David Casseres):
> In article <1991Feb14.150442.1@gsbacd.uchicago.edu> 
> gft_robert@gsbacd.uchicago.edu (opcode ranger) writes:
>> What are the issues involved in making an app "background only".
> 
> To write a faceless background app (FBA):  first of all, rip out 
> everything that has to do with windows or menus.  Don't forget to rip out 
> things like InitWindows, and don't forget that dialogs and alerts are 
> windows too.

But don't rip out ALL the initializations: for reasons that are arcane and
have no reasonable explanation -- i.e. please take this one on faith, boys
and girls, it works for me and people far smarter than me who don't
understand it either -- leave in the calls to InitGraf and InitFonts.

=Ned Horvath=
ehorvath@attmail.com