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From: erich@crash.cts.com (Eric Hicks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Disabling menus when DA's are closed
Keywords: desk accessory, menu, c, pascal
Message-ID: <7769@crash.cts.com>
Date: 28 Feb 91 21:54:29 GMT
Organization: Crash TimeSharing, El Cajon, CA
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Just a quick question that is quite probably rather simply solved. An
application I'm writing never uses the edit menu while my main window
is frontmost. (ie active) I've dimmed the menu, which is easily accomplished
in ResEdit. My problem occurs with DA suppport. I can enable the menu
when the DA comes up easily, and I also figured out how to tell when the
user has chosen close from my file menu as a way to close a DA. My Problem
occurs when the user, clicks the close box of a DA. How can I find out
when this has happened so that I can dim the edit menu? I have a solution
that "works" but it's so ugly that it's not worth posting. E-mail response
is fine and I'll summarize to the net if there seems to be a need and the
solution isn't obvious. Code fragments in either Pascal or C are fine, as
they are relatively easy to inter-translate. If it's any help, I'm using
THINK C 4.0.  Thanks in advance...
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