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From: lsr@apple.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: ApplicationMenu
Keywords: a must have Init
Message-ID: <7166@apple.UUCP>
Date: 11 Jan 88 20:36:22 GMT
References: <6396@drutx.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: lsr@apple.UUCP (Larry Rosenstein)
Distribution: comp
Organization: Advanced Technology Group, Apple Computer
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Posted: Mon Jan 11 15:36:22 1988

In article <6396@drutx.ATT.COM> clive@drutx.ATT.COM (Clive Steward) writes:
>I hope Larry Rosenstein will forgive me for what I've done here;
>he's cooked up a real must have, an Init which gives a menu of your
>applications under Multifinder.

Thanks for adding the icon, etc. to the file.  I would also like to add some
general info:

The INIT works much the same way as the MF Menu INIT that was floating
around.  The main difference is that MF Menu had a bug which would prevent
it from working within applications that added extra dividing lines to the
apple menu.

Both INITs work by examining the apple menu and finding the list of
applications that Multifinder add there.  This list is copied to a separate
menu and presented as a popup menu.  Application menu finds the list of
applications by locating the last 2 dividing lines in the menu.  

Therefore, the feature requires that the application support an apple menu
and DAs, otherwise there won't be any list of applications.  It also doesn't
have a menu item to activate the DA layer, since that doesn't appear in the
apple menu either.

-- 
Larry Rosenstein

Object Specialist
Apple Computer

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