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From: lsr@Apple.COM (Larry Rosenstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: DA's, just say no!
Message-ID: <12406@goofy.Apple.COM>
Date: 6 Mar 91 03:49:33 GMT
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In article <12182@pt.cs.cmu.edu> hairston@henry.ECE.CMU.EDU (David Hairston) writes:
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>nothing useful).  Since it assumes MultiFinder, I've decided
>not to add support for DA's within my application (after all,
>there's DA Handler).  This only means that if you install a

You still have to support DAs in order for MultiFinder to work.  For example,
when the user picks a DA, the only way for MultiFinder to know this is that
your application calls OpenDeskAcc.  The same is true of switching
applications by choosing the name from the Apple menu.  It might be possible
to leave out some of the other calls, but you're not talking about much
code, so you might as well put it in.




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