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From: lsr@apple.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: enabling the correct entries in the 'Edit' menu
Message-ID: <6328@apple.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 23-Sep-87 19:37:28 EDT
Article-I.D.: apple.6328
Posted: Wed Sep 23 19:37:28 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 26-Sep-87 09:09:24 EDT
References: <876@cadnetix.UUCP>
Reply-To: lsr@apple.UUCP (Larry Rosenstein)
Organization: Advanced Technology Group, Apple Computer
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Keywords: menu, edit, cut, paste

In article <876@cadnetix.UUCP> jva@cadnetix.UUCP (Joe VanAndel) writes:
>
>I have discovered how to determine that a desk-accessory window had
>been activated or de-activated, and enabled/disabled the menu
>items appropriately, but then I discovered that I had missed the
>case of the desk-accesssory being closed, while its window was active.

In MacApp we check for an active desk accessory after each event.  You do
this by looking at the window kind field of the FrontWindow.  DA Windows
have a negative window kind (it is the DA refnum).  If FrontWindow returns
NIL, then there are no windows open.

-- 
Larry Rosenstein

Object Specialist
Apple Computer

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