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From: oster@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu (David Phillip Oster)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: inits running off the right side of a 9" screen
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Date: 5 May 89 01:19:56 GMT
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In article <1755@yunexus.UUCP> gall@yunexus.UUCP (Norman R. Gall) writes:
>Ok.  I have 19 inits and most can't have their icons turned off (nor
>do they have a separate init resource that I could hack out).  Is
>there anything I can do about this?  Maybe someone should write an
>init to have two rows of startup init icons :-) :-)

Unfortunately, the current showInit convention only passes the X
coordinate from INIT to INIT. the Y coordinate comes from QuickDraw's
global variables. I thought it was too risky to try to patch QuickDraw to
lie to later INITs.

Some time ago, I posted the LSC source code and the HQX object code for an
INIT called "CR", the sole function of which is to carriage return the
INIT display.  Just name it so it is alphabetically between the INITs you
want to CR, and it will start a new row, midway between the INITs of the
old row.  Not an ideal solution, but a quick and easy one.

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