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From: dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner)
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Subject: Re: Hierarchical Menus in DAs
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Date: 14 May 91 14:42:56 GMT
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In article <1991May12.205320.21492@cbnewsk.att.com> ech@cbnewsk.att.com (ned.horvath) writes:
>Don't confuse the menu's resource ID (which should be in the range "owned"
>by your DA, hence no conflicts with other DAs) with the menuID, which is
>the short integer given by the first two bytes of the MENU resource.  Most
>app writers keep these identical to avoid confusion, but they needn't be,

Careful.  The popup menu cdef supplied with the 6.0.x version of the CTB
REQUIRES that menuid==resource id.  The requirement is undocumented, but
it's definitely there.  Yet another obscure detail to delight us all...

I don't know if the same is true with the System 7 popup CDEF.
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Steve Dorner, U of Illinois Computing Services Office
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