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From: olson@endor.harvard.edu (Eric Olson)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: DA support (or lack thereof)
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Date: Mon, 16-Jun-86 07:06:58 EDT
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It would seem that MacDraw's logic for DAs is not just to close all open
DAs when you click on the main window.  For instance, a desk accessory
such as Hyperdrive Drawers, which consists only of a menu, remains open
when I click on the main Draw window or open a new document.  Extras, a
DA which starts out with a menu and opens window(s) after pulls to items
in that menu, stays open so long as I don't open a window with it.

So, I guess MacDraw tries to close all open DAs when the Draw window is
activated and the DA window(s) deactivate.  Interestingly enough, Drawers
(the menu-only DA above) goes away when this happens, but cannot be
opened again (presumably it doesn't know it's closed).  I consider this a
bug.

We should remember that not all Macs have the same size screen (in fact,
there are 3:  Macintosh, Lisa/Mac XL, and Lisa/Mac XL with the screen mod). 
So programs shouldn't be doing things because "they use the entire menu bar"
because that's a hardware dependent thing.

Ideally, the menubar would scroll left if I drag far enough right on it.

-Eric