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From: michael@otago.ac.nz
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: DA's, copying, and MultiFinder
Message-ID: <1991Mar20.144345.178@otago.ac.nz>
Date: 20 Mar 91 03:21:10 GMT
Organization: University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
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I have a problem here with a desk accessory I am fixing up (yes, I know, I
would rather it was a small application too). I would like to have a button
that does a Copy of the text the DA is displaying and closes it in one action.
It would seem this is not possible under MultiFinder, because in the words of
Tech Note 181:

> MultiFinder 6.0 and earlier keeps separate scrap variables for each
> partition. MultiFinder only checks to see whether or not to increment the other
> partitions scrapCount variables in response to a user-initiated Cut or Copy. 
> To do this, it watches for a call to _SysEdit (SystemEdit) or a menu event to
> determine if an official Cut or Copy command has been issued.

Because my "Copy and close" button isn't official according to MultiFinder
it doesn't export the scrap to other applications. If I try to make it official
from within the DA by calling SystemEdit(3) weird and unpleasant things happen.
Has anyone else encountered this? Is there a legitimate solution?

Thanks,

Michael(tm) Hamel, Computing Services Centre, University of Otago, New Zealand

MASSACHUSETTS (pl. n.)             
Those items and particles which people who, after blowing their noses, are
searching for when they look into their hankies.