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From: jmunkki@santra.UUCP (Juri Munkki)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: MultiFinder Quit
Message-ID: <8050@santra.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 11-Oct-87 07:31:19 EDT
Article-I.D.: santra.8050
Posted: Sun Oct 11 07:31:19 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 13-Oct-87 01:39:41 EDT
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
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Keywords: Quit, File, International, MultiFinder


I read that MultiFinder tries to quit applications by finding a menu called
"File" and an item called "Quit". As mentioned in a recent digest it is clear
that this approach doesn't work on international programs.

There is a simple solution that would require apple to slightly modify their
MultiFinder code. MultiFinder would first look for a resource in the program.
This resource would contain the name of the menu and menu item. I first thought
that the menu ID and item number would be enough, but some programs keep making
changes in their menus. (MacDraw for example)

A really nice change would be to allow the user (or program) to change the
way the program quits. I might want to save all files automatically in some
programs and in others I might want to discard changes automatically.

Juri Munkki
jmunkki@santra.hut.fi

P.S.
I'm still waiting for someone to explain why MacsBug slows down the 68881.
(Maybe someone even knows a fix.)