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From: leonardr@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Showing a list of all the avail
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Date: 26 Feb 88 18:43:00 GMT
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/* acf8:comp.sys.mac.programmer / icm@eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU (Ioannis C. Mangos) /  9:28 pm  Feb 21, 1988 */

>        I am writting a small application for the Mac with some friends of mine
>and we want to have a menu called "Windows" that will display all the windows
>that there are currently on the screen.  One problem I have is that there does
>not seem to be a command "DeleteMItem" whereas there is one called "AppendMItem"
>The way I was thinking to do that was to have a linked list of all the window
>titles and append them.  But in order to do that I have to delete first all the
>existing titles n that menu.
>        Does anyone has an alternative on that that is willing to share with
>me?  Thank you for your help in advance.
	You should purchase a copy of Scott Knaster new book, Macintosh
Programming Secrets.  In it (along with a host of other useful things) you will
find section (and example source) that deals with window handling including
a Windows Menu for both selection windows as well as Stacking and Tiling them.

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