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From: phil@mit-amt (Phil Sohn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Multifinder problem
Summary: How MF finds the quit menu item
Message-ID: <3493@mit-amt>
Date: 19 Jan 89 15:35:55 GMT
References: <1662@lindy.Stanford.EDU> <2314@ilium.cs.swarthmore.edu> <1322@viscous.sco.COM>
Reply-To: phil@media-lab.media.mit.edu (Phil Sohn)
Organization: MIT Media Lab, Cambridge MA
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In article <1322@viscous.sco.COM> jamesm@sco.COM (James M. Moore) writes:
>In article <2314@ilium.cs.swarthmore.edu> jackiw@ilium.UUCP (Nick Jackiw) writes:
>>When User shutsdown or restarts from the Finder, MultiFinder attempts to
>>QUIT your opened app by looking in the FILE menu for a "QUIT" item.
>
>How does it tell which is which?  I hope it doesn't do something
>foolish like look for the strings "Quit" and "Open," as not all
>software is written in English.  (If it does do something this
>braindead, could someone plese tell me how to modify this string from my
>code?)

	Well, it does do something braindead like looks for Quit under
the File menu.  However, it is rather smart about the way it does it,
looking first for a mst# resource that has the same format as a `STR `
resource.  The resources are:

100	Name(s) of the menu containing the quit command
101	Name(s) of the menu item corresponding to the quit command 
102	Name(s) of the menu containing the open document command
103	Name(s) of the menu item corresponding to the open document command 

	For more info check out Tech Note 205 Multifinder Revisited.


						phil@ems.media.mit.edu