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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: <7390004@hpindda.HP.COM>
Date: 25 Feb 88 21:31:47 GMT
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/ hpindda:comp.sys.mac.programmer / rs4u+@andrew.cmu.edu (Richard Siegel) /  9:45 am  Feb 24, 1988 /
>
>It's "SetItem" you're thinking of; "SetIText" is for setting dialog items.

Thanks for correcting me.  My copy of IM is at home.

>I need to write a Windows menu...
>
>The question is, when to maintain it? Every activate/deactivate event? That 
>seems the best question; you can waste a LOT of time doing it every time 
>through the main event loop. Anyway, the window list only changes on 
>activate/deactivate events anyway....

First, I'm assuming that you are only concerned about inserting windows that
you use into your menu (ie. you don't care about DA windows, etc.).

Now, the only time you need to update the window list is when you create
and destroy a window.  You don't have to update it everytime there is an
activate/deactivate event.

I have an application that I have a window list.  I recreate the window list
everytime I create/destroy a window.  I also go one step further, however.
I put a check mark by the active window.  So, I use two routines, one
which recreates the window menu list (which I call after window creation
and destruction) and one which checks/unchecks the active window which is
call during the activate/deactivate event.

Actually, the code to maintain the window list is quite easy.  If you, or
anyone else, is interested in some source code segments, I'd be glad to send
them....
>
>		--Rich
>
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>Richard Siegel
>Confused Undergrad, Carnegie-Mellon University
>
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>of Carnegie-Mellon University.
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			-lee
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Lee Atchison
Hewlett Packard, Information Networks Division
atchison%hpindda@hplabs.hp.com