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From: rosenkra@convex.com (William Rosencranz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Re: DA's and MenuBar
Message-ID: <1991Mar14.084731.14194@convex.com>
Date: 14 Mar 91 08:47:31 GMT
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In article <1991Mar13.101646.23814@informatik.uni-erlangen.de> csbrod@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Claus Brod) writes:
>vsnyder@jato.jpl.nasa.gov (Van Snyder) writes:
>
>>Can a DA have a menu bar?
>
>Unfortunately, it cannot. A GEM restriction.

strickly speaking, it can't be a GEM-controlled menubar, but there is
nothing stopping you from writing your own, say under the AC window's
title/status bar, or even popup menus. these would work more or less
like dialogs. just watch out for getting sued if you are successful :-)

-bill
rosenkra@convex.com

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