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From: kevin@uts.amdahl.com (Kevin Clague)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Window resource sharing?
Message-ID: <013iE468bq1010f=JAk@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>
Date: 21 Feb 89 15:15:48 GMT
References: <11640010@hpfcdc.HP.COM> <10780@well.UUCP>
Reply-To: kevin@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Kevin Clague)
Organization: Amdahl Corporation,  Sunnyvale, CA 94086
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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.  This is
>important because, if the user manages to interact with the Menu in one of
>the other Windows before you've chased down all the NextMenu elements, you
>could get propelled into a brick wall.  Also, if you have CHECKIT MenuItems,
>then one Window may change the state of the CHECKED flags behind the others'
>back.

Good point.  Could MENUVERIFY help?  i.e. I catch the right mouse button
and then present the menu when the user pushes the button?  Does this not
solve the problem since the user can't use the menu until I give it to
her?

I don't believe there is a similar situation for gadgets....

>Leo L. Schwab -- The Guy in The Cape	INET: well!ewhac@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU

Kevin
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