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From: singer@endor.harvard.edu (Rich Siegel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Menu Manager Bug...?
Message-ID: <5005@husc6.harvard.edu>
Date: 22 Jul 88 22:11:52 GMT
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Reply-To: singer@endor.UUCP (Rich Siegel)
Organization: Symantec/THINK Technologies, Bedford, MA
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Consider the following code:

	AppendMenu(SpecialMenu, ' '); {create a dummy menu item}
	SetItem(SpecialMenu, windowCount + 6, wPeek^.TitleHandle^^);

If the window's name begins with a dash (-), the entire menu item is
a gray line. This would be correct behavior if the string was passed
to AppendMenu, but NOT for sSetItem. Inside Macintosh (Volume 1, page 357)
says:

	"SetItem changes the text of the given item to itemString. It doesn't
recognize the metacharacters used in AppendMenu; if you include them in
ItemString, they will appear in the text of the menu item."

Unfortunately, I didn't notice whether this behavior appeared when I updated
my system to the 6.0 distribution.

My configuration is as follows:

	Macintosh Plus
	2.5 MB
	Radius Accelerator (version 1.8 ROMs)
	System 6.0

Is this a new bug, a "feature", or am I completely off base?

Thanks for any insights...

		--Rich

Rich Siegel
THINK Technologies

Rich Siegel
Quality Assurance Technician
THINK Technologies Division, Symantec Corp.
Internet: singer@endor.harvard.edu
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