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From: svc@well.UUCP (Leonard Rosenthol)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Mockwrite
Summary: Has nothing to do with the system...
Message-ID: <11113@well.UUCP>
Date: 26 Mar 89 22:33:26 GMT
References: <97.242B951E@bmug.FIDONET.ORG>
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In article <97.242B951E@bmug.FIDONET.ORG>, Raines.Cohen@f444.n161.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Raines Cohen) writes:
> 
>  
>  Re: MockWrite and "save changes after closing"
>  
> Acta, MiniWriter, and other DA's do it now.  Don't thank MockWrite, thank the Shutdown Manager and recent Systems that include it.
>  
	Sorry Raines, but a DA's 'ability' to alert the user that he will lose
data on a close ('Do you wish to Save...') has NOTHING to do with the system.
A DA must be programmed specifically to support something called the (yes,
really) Goodbye Kiss.  When a DA is closed by either the user (click in close
box) or by the system (application closing or shutdown) then the DA gets this
'kiss' from the system - if the DA recognizes it, then it SHOULD do the proper
clearnup/shutdown - it it doesn't know about the kiss, bye bye data...

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