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From: manis@ubc-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: desk accessories
Message-ID: <1442@ubc-cs.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 4-Jun-87 12:19:34 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun  4 12:19:34 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 6-Jun-87 09:56:28 EDT
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Reply-To: manis@ubc-cs.UUCP (Vincent Manis)
Organization: UBC Department of Computer Science
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In article <86@decvax.UUCP> minow@decvax.UUCP (Martin Minow) writes of 
DA's:
>However, it may well be the case that they can't have separate resource
>files.
This is indeed the case. There's apparently a bug with the Resource Library:
if you use RsrcLoad in a DA, it wastes a considerable amount of memory
(about 40K). TDI Modula-2 comes with a program called the Resource Embedder,
which turns a resource file into Modula-2 code. If you're using another
language, you'll pretty well have to do it yourself.

My original remark about menus was imprecise. I was specifically referring
to what you can do on the Mac, where a DA can install a menu on the menu
bar, unbeknownst to the host application. The "Keycaps" DA on the Mac uses
that to add a "Font" menu. I don't know how that can be done on GEM.

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