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From: glenn@gla-aux.uucp (Glenn Austin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Think Pascal, Sys 7, & Apple Menu...
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Date: 25 May 91 04:39:54 GMT
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In article <1991May19.030239.10018@umiami.ir.miami.edu>, dweisman@umiami.ir.miami.edu (Ordinary Man) writes:
> What happens is, I select an item from the apple menu 
> and nothing seems to happen. That is, until I quit my program. Then the item is 
> "run." This is regardless of whether I'm in Think Pascal's enivironment or as a 
> stand-alone application. Any particular reason for this strangeness?

If the Finder can't get its AppleEvent to launch the DA item, then it won't
open.  You ARE calling WaitNextEvent and not using the "evil" SetEventMask,
are you???

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