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From: siegel@endor.harvard.edu (Rich Siegel)
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Subject: Re: Standard File and Desk Accessories
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Date: 5 Jun 89 02:40:14 GMT
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In article <50967@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Todd A Hitt <thitt@cis.ohio-state.edu> writes:
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>I can't use a global variable in a Desk Accessory.  I've tried using the
>dialog's refCon - which causes Standard File to crash.

	If you're using LightspeedC 3.0 or later, or Lightspeed Pascal 2.0 or
later, then DA's can have globals. Otherwise, you can allocate storage
in the dCtlStorage handle field of the DA's DCE.

		--Rich



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 Rich Siegel
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