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From: barry@world.std.com (Barry L Wolman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: DisposeMenu vs. ReleaseResource
Summary: What's the difference between DisposeMenu and ReleaseResource
Keywords: mac, programming, toolbox, menu, resource
Message-ID: <1991May1.005649.27669@world.std.com>
Date: 1 May 91 00:56:49 GMT
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
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I'm incorporating some code written by someone else into a project I'm
doing.  That code assumes that it can use DisposeMenu when it's through
with a menu.  However, many of the menus with which it will deal will
have been read from the resource file.  Inside Mac says to use
ReleaseResource to get rid of menus read from resource files and to
use DisposeMenu for menus created by NewMenu.  IM doesn't say what
happens if you call DisposeMenu on a menu read from a resource file.
Should I add some code to check what type of menu is involved and
make the appropriate call?  What (bad?) happens if I just let it
always call DisposeMenu.

Thanks,
Barry

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