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From: atchison@hpindda.HP.COM (Lee Atchison)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Showing a list of all the available windows
Message-ID: <7390002@hpindda.HP.COM>
Date: 24 Feb 88 00:50:26 GMT
References: <8224@eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU>
Organization: HP Information Networks, Cupertino, CA
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If you want to get fancy, you can do the following optimization to the
"delete all menu items, then add them back in" scenerio:

If the number of new windows is equal to the number of old windows to be
placed in the menu, then just use SetIText (I think this is the call, if you
want more info, send me mail) to change the name of the text in the menu
items.

If the number of new windows is greater than the number of old windows, then
simply "add" the necessary number of menu items, then use SetIText.

If the number of new windows is less than the number of old windows, then
you are out of luck and you have to do the "delete, then add them all back
in" method.

I recently faced the same problem, and decided it wasn't worth the effort, so
I did the "delete/add them in" for all cases, the code isn't all that bad, and
I don't think it is all that inefficient (if I'm wrong, please let me know).

				-lee
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Lee Atchison
Hewlett Packard, Information Networks Division
atchison%hpindda@hplabs.hp.com