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From: fmodwyer@csvax1.cs.tcd.ie (Frank O'Dwyer, Dept. of Computer Science, TCD, Dublin 2, IRELAND)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: MultiFinder questions
Message-ID: <42072@csvax1.cs.tcd.ie>
Date: 9 Apr 89 22:12:37 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Department, Trinity College Dublin
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I'm sure that these questions are answered in some
tech note or other - but since I don't have the notes I'm
going to ask them anyway.

1. When can an application background under MF?  i.e., when is it
O.K. to set the 'Can Background' bit in the MF SIZE resource?

2. What does an application have to do to be 'MultiFinder Aware'?

I ask because I've written a program which seems to background fine
under MF - even though I've set 'MultiFinder Aware' to false,
and set 'Can Background' to true - *without* making the slightest
provision in my code to handle backgrounding.  Is this O.K. or
is my program doomed to crash under some wierd set of circumstances? 

-- 
Frank O'Dwyer,                            e-mail: FMODWYER@cs.tcd.ie
Dept. of Computer Science,
Trinity College Dublin,
IRELAND.