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From: lippin@spam.berkeley.edu (The Apathist)
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Subject: Custom menu bars
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Date: 24 May 88 00:59:48 GMT
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I started working on a custom MBDF yesterday, and so for the first
time closely examined that part of IM V's menu manager chapter.  The
MBDF is to be declared as returning a LONGINT, but one of the
messages, GetRect (or just Rect, depending on where you look) would
have it return a Rect.  Now, last I heard, Pascal doesn't have
provisions for returning record types, but I can ignore that, because
I'm writing in C.  But I still can't cram a Rect into a LONGINT; it's
just too big.  I also thought of returning a pointer to the Rect, but
then where would I put the Rect?  In the MBDF's copious global
storage?  Or on the heap, where it might never be disposed of?

Anyone know what the deal is here?

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