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From: lsr@apple.UUCP (Larry Rosenstein)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: Bug in Switch Desk Accessory?
Message-ID: <2246@apple.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 27-Nov-85 20:19:34 EST
Article-I.D.: apple.2246
Posted: Wed Nov 27 20:19:34 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 29-Nov-85 07:42:58 EST
References: <125@qucis.UUCP>
Reply-To: lsr@apple.UUCP (Larry Rosenstein)
Organization: Advanced Development Group, Apple Computer
Lines: 30
Keywords: Switch, MacDraw, bug

In article <125@qucis.UUCP> cordy@qucis.UUCP (Jim Cordy) writes:
>Some weeks ago a nice desk accessory called 'Switch' that allows
...
>
>I had every intention of continuing to use it ... until I discovered that
>for some reason it doesn't work with MacDraw (which I normally want
>to switch with MacWrite frequently).  The symptom is that after the 
>Switch desk accessory is invoked from inside MacDraw, all menu headers
>are blanked out except File and Edit.  In particular, the Switch menu 
>is not there.

I think the problem is that Switch should be inserting/deleting its
menu when it gets an activate/deactivate event.  This is documented
in the Desk Manager chapter of Inside Macintosh.

MacDraw is unusual in that it deletes most of the menus (including
Switch's) when a desk accessory comes up; in most applications the
menu would be put up once and stay up.

I can think of any workaround, other than changing Switch.




-- 
Larry Rosenstein
Apple Computer

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