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From: leonardr@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Problems With Menus
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Date: 31 Jan 89 17:45:00 GMT
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lsr@Apple.COM(Larry Rosenstein) writes in comp.sys.mac.programmer

>>and when the program needs to reference a menu handle, do:
>>	GetMHandle(APPLEMENU);
>
>This works as long as that menu is in the menu bar.  GetMHandle searches
>through the menus in the menu bar only (which makes it more efficient that
>using the Resource Manager).  If you don't know for sure that the menu is in
>the menu bar, then you can call the Resource Manager.
>
	I believe that what you meant to say Larry, was that it searches the menus
in the MENU LIST not the Menu Bar.  The difference being that PopUps and HMenus
are installed into the MenuList using InsertMenu(theMenu, -1) so that they are
not put into the menu bar itself, but put into the MenuList, where GetMHandle
can find them as well.

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