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From: steele@unc.cs.unc.edu (Oliver Steele)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Meaning a few of the SIZE bits w/ Multifinder
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Date: 11 Mar 88 16:59:46 GMT
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Keywords: Multifinder SIZE

tomc@mntgfx.mentor.com (Tom Carstensen) writes:
>I Understand what most of the SIZE bits means to Multifinder,
>excepts for the bit labled 'Juggler Aware' (with ResEdit 1.1b3)
>and also the bit Background only.  What do these mean.  There
>is already a bit for accept suspend/resume events, so what
>it the Juggler Aware bit for?

Accept-suspend/resume means "Pass me those app4events and I'll
put my stuff in the clipboard and take it out without you're having
to fake me out with desk accessories."

Juggler/MF-aware means "I'll also activate/deactivate my front window, or
call SystemEvent if it's a desk accessory when I get a suspend/resume."
If only Suspend/Resume is set, MF also passes separate activate/deactivate
events.

Background-only means "Start me up and I'll do my stuff and call
{Get,Wait}NextEvent periodically, but don't send me any events because
I'm just an Eplethnet daemon or whatever, and return immediately to
the launching application."  Set this and your application will never
come to the foreground.  It's undocumented and I can't quite figure
out how to work it so that the menu bar comes back to life after the
background-only application is run; try it with an app that blinks a
square on the screen somewhere every half second and you'll see how
it works and what I mean.

Disable-option apparently doesn't do anything.  Certainly not the
obvious thing involving DAs that you'd guess from the name.

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