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From: peter@sugar.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Window resource sharing?
Message-ID: <3478@sugar.uu.net>
Date: 21 Feb 89 03:54:03 GMT
References: <11640010@hpfcdc.HP.COM> <10780@well.UUCP>
Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston, TX
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In article <10780@well.UUCP>, ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab) writes:
> In article <11640010@hpfcdc.HP.COM> cunniff@hpfcdc.HP.COM (Ross Cunniff) writes:
> >	1.  Is it legal for multiple windows to share the same
> >	    Menu list?

> 	Possible, but problematic.  The NextMenu pointers will be going
> every which way, depending on which Window last had the menu.

If you have several windows open simultaneously, and treat it all as one
input stream, it's no problem.

> Also, if you have CHECKIT MenuItems,
> then one Window may change the state of the CHECKED flags behind the others'
> back.

This is, again, not a problem of you design the program to consider it one big
shared menu.
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