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From: pratt@csn.org (Jonathan Pratt)
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Subject: Changes to Standard File under System 7
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Date: 31 May 91 05:50:56 GMT
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I'd like someone in the know to tell me the reasoning behind a couple of
annoying changes to the old standard file calls under the new system.

In SFPGetFile and SFPPutFile the supplied filterprocs no longer receive
update events for windows other than the standard file box.  This causes
a cosmetic breakage in quite a few apps that used these events to update
their back windows.  Is there now a non-painful way to provide this
updating under both System 7 and 6.0.x?

In SFPGetFile, when you enter zero for the number of file types you
now get all the files, whereas before you got none, which was convenient
for setting directories.  I know you can easily work around this by
supplying a file filter, but what's the point of this change?  You could
already use numTypes = -1 if you wanted to see all the files.

Jonathan

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