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From: lippin@sizzlean.berkeley.edu (The Apathist)
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Subject: Re: Custom menu bars
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Date: 24 May 88 10:43:16 GMT
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More problems:  The Init message to a MBDF should cause it to allocate
a structure in the system heap.  But there's scant information on what
that structure is.  Presumably, it would contain the menu rects and
some identification of open menus.  Plus a mysterious field
lastMBSave, which apparently does nothing but get cleared.

Is this structure to be of some specific form?  If so, what form?  If
not, what is the meaning of clearing its lastMBSave field?  In fact,
what *is* the lastMBSave field?

Also, although the MBDF is supposed to allocate this thing, it doesn't
return a reference to it.  Should the pointer/handle (which one,
anyway?) be stuck in some unmentioned global spot?  As this thing is
sitting in the system heap, I'd like to see it disposed of sometime.
What takes care of that?  (The dispose message isn't described as
doing so.)

Finally, the MBDF is supposed to try to align the top of a
hierarchical menu with the item its associated with in the parent
menu.  How does it know where the item in the parent menu is?  The
MDEF doesn't have a code for telling it.  Why is the MBDF handling
this anyway?  It has little to do with how the menu bar works.

Inquiring minds want to know!

					--Tom Lippincott
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