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From: sam@cci632.UUCP (Sam Mantel)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: DA support (or lack thereof)
Message-ID: <117@cci632.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 13-Jun-86 09:39:09 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun 13 09:39:09 1986
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Summary: macdraw and da's

> My question is, what is the 'official' Apple policy and implementation idea
> for applications with a full menubar?  MacDraw may have been a first attempt;
> I don't consider it satisfactory in the least.  Clearing the menubar may be
> OK, but closing all DA's upon window reactivation is not.  By chance is this
> covered in the Addison-Wesley edition?
> 
> --Chris

How could clearing the menubar be ok and closing all da's upon window
reactivation not be?  If the da's window is still present, then the associated
menus for it must still be there (according to IM).  It would seem that the
only 'clean' implementation of da's in a program that uses the whole menu bar
would be to close the da's.  What's so wrong with this anyway?  In any sizable
system, there will always be seemingly conflicting goals.

Sam Mantel -- Roch, NY

"Nobody promised it would be easy, and nobody promised it would be fair."
                                                 Dr. Samuel J. Mantel, Jr.