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From: singer@endor.harvard.edu (Rich Siegel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Menu Manager Bug...?
Keywords: "feature"
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Date: 24 Jul 88 18:14:53 GMT
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In article <9482@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> earleh@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Earle R. Horton) writes:
>This is actually a fairly common situation, as in the case of any
>program which uses a menu to switch between named document windows.
>It happens in MicroSoft Word 3.02, and probably in all Macintosh
>applications which have a menu consisting of window or file names
>which could start with '-'.  It happens in MultiFinder's menu for open
>applications if you rename an application to start with '-' and then
>launch it under MultiFinder.
>
>I suggest that this is a "feature" of the present Menu Manager, and
>that you will have to code for it or you will get a "bug" in your
>program.

	Sounds pretty bogus, if you ask me. :-)

	At any rate, I now special-case file names:

	title := wPeek^.TitleHandle^^;
	if title[1] = '-' then
		title := Concat(Chr(0), title);

	SeItem(SpecialMenu, WindowCount + 6, title);

This works fine, so now I guess I'm one of the few that does it right...

R.



Rich Siegel
Quality Assurance Technician
THINK Technologies Division, Symantec Corp.
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