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From: MJSCHMEL@pucc.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: strings
Message-ID: <4632@pucc.Princeton.EDU>
Date: 3 Mar 88 07:55:28 GMT
Reply-To: MJSCHMEL@pucc.Princeton.EDU
Organization: Princeton University, NJ
Lines: 47
Posted: Thu Mar  3 02:55:28 1988
Disclaimer: Author bears full responsibility for contents of this article

Okay. Now we're getting into some real use of strings.
You can't do an app without menus, and I'm stuck, MPW
wise. (LSC, all I had to do was "\pFile", "\pQuit/Q"
and so on.)
Here's what don't work...
 
Initialize()
{
	char buffer[255];
	register MenuHandle m;
	
/*	The apple and File menu don't work either
 *
 *
 */
	strcpy (buffer, "Edit");
	c2pstr(buffer);
	DebugStr(buffer); /* works: debugger says EDIT */
	m = NewMenu(EditID, buffer);
	strcpy (buffer, "Undo/Z");
	c2pstr(buffer);
	DebugStr(buffer); /* works: debugger says UNDO/Z */
	AppendMenu(m, buffer);
	strcpy (buffer, "(-");
/*
 * and so on..
 */
 
I get nonsensical strings in the menu bar reminiscent of
some bad experiences I've had with strings in my early C
career. (I'm not _still_ writing bad C, am I???) Of course,
it's then just a matter of clicking somewhere to drop into
the debugger _involuntarily_.
Any insights here would be appreciated.
 
I guess my question could be most succinctly put like this:
How do you do menus from code in MPW C? (As opposed to getting
menus from a resource.)
Has there been a MacTutor article on the diffs between LSC
and MPW C, covering the difficulties in porting one to the
other? (It sure turned out harder than I expected.)
 
THANK GOD FOR COMP.SYS.MAC.PROGRAMMER!
(I'll stop snivelling now.)
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