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From: billkatt@caen.engin.umich.edu (Steve Bollinger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: HierDA incompatibility with FullWrite
Message-ID: <3f2d3711.129dc@blue.engin.umich.edu>
Date: 20 Oct 88 21:36:00 GMT
References: <6602@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Organization: U of M Engineering, Ann Arbor, Mich.
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From article <6602@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>, by mha@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Mark H. Anbinder):
> I discovered recently that the HierDA init/cdev that turns the desk
> accessory menu into a set of hierarchical menus (including making all
> cdevs in your System Folder appear as submenus with the Control Panel
> menu item) does not work properly with FullWrite Professional.  When
> in FullWrite, the desk accessory menu has odd characters (some are the
> rectangle, so I can't tell for sure what they are) replacing the right-
> pointing triangle that indicates a submenu.  A few of these menu items
> with submenus also get one or two of these garbage characters to their
> LEFT, in addition to the ones replacing the triangle.
> 
> Astoundingly, HierDA still functions fine.  The menus act hierarchically;
> you just see a very odd-looking menu.
> 
> Of course, when you try to use FullWrite's WalkDown menu function, the
> DA menu acts even more oddly, but still works (though no longer
> hierarchically).  
> 
> Does anyone know what's causing this, and what might prevent it?  It
> still seems to work fine, so I'm not TOO concerned, but I'm worried that
> it might not be as stable as usual.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Mark H. Anbinder                                ** MHA@TCGould.tn.cornell.edu
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Yes, Ann Arbor softworks (who wrote FullWrite and sold out to Ashton-Tate)
uses their own proprietary menu format (real menus don't change when you
press the option key after they are pulled down), and apparently, it doesn't
support h-menus (they don't use them, why should it).  But you are right, it
seems harmless.  By the way, they don't use realy dialoug boxes either, they
use 'Banter' boxes, their own format which is much more flexible and powerful
.
Steve Bollinger
University of Michigan
billkatt@caen.engin.umich.edu