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From: dwb@apple.UUCP (David W. Berry)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Avoiding menu metacharacters
Message-ID: <6233@apple.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 14-Sep-87 21:17:00 EDT
Article-I.D.: apple.6233
Posted: Mon Sep 14 21:17:00 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 16-Sep-87 06:44:16 EDT
References: <1108@runx.ips.oz>
Reply-To: dwb@apple.UUCP (David W. Berry)
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, USA
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In article <1108@runx.ips.oz> betz@runx.ips.oz (Andrew Betzis) writes:
>
>	Is there any way of displaying the AppendMenu() metacharacters
>(^ ! < / ( ) in a menu.
        In the original call to AppendMenu use a dummy string and
	then use SetItem to set the actual text.
		 
	AppendMenu(mh, "\pFoo;Bar;dummy");
	SetItem(mh, 3, "\p(!</(");
				  
	Of course this makes it more difficult to get menu's
	from resources.

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	David W. Berry
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