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From: pollock@usfvax2.UUCP (Wayne Pollock)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: (LSC) Deep Dark Secrets Wanted!
Message-ID: <948@usfvax2.UUCP>
Date: 3 Feb 88 23:38:39 GMT
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Reply-To: pollock@usfvax2.usf.edu.UUCP (Wayne Pollock)
Organization: University of South Florida at Tampa
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Summary: How to make a DA live across launches

>Of course the easiest way to make a DA live forever is to use the same
>"trick" that MultiFinder uses, place the DA into the System heap rather than
>the application heap.  ...

This sounds fairly easy, you would just have to change a bit in the GetInfo
box of ResEdit (the one that says to install in system heap).  But it doesn't
always work.  I tried this with the "Journal" DA a long time ago.  The problem
seems to be that the menu bar gets redrawn from inside the finder, which
doesn't know that the DA was opened.  So the DA thinks it is open, and its
menus are unavailable.

To fix this I suppose it would only be necessary to have the DA open routine
check that if the DA is already open (that is, I chose the DA from the apple
menu a second time while the DA was still active), make sure its menus are
on the current menu bar.

This information is many versions of the system ago; I don't know if the
current system software works the same way or not.  If you do get a definitive
solution to this problem, please post it!

Wayne Pollock (The MAD Scientist)	pollock@usfvax2.usf.edu.UUCP
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