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From: mystone@mondo.engin.umich.edu (Dean Yu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Odd Interaction Between Notifcation Manager and MS Word 4
Message-ID: <1990Feb9.040754.16705@caen.engin.umich.edu>
Date: 9 Feb 90 04:07 GMT
Organization: Computer Aided Engineering Network, University of Michigan
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  Here's an interesting one for y'all.  I've got a driver that (among other
things) will listen for a message to come over the network, and it displays it
using the Notification Manager's alert notification mode.
  So I got the code working, and I'm just trying it with various applications
just to see if it works.  (And thanking my lucky stars that I didn't have
set up my own A5 world to draw the dialog box.)
  For those of you who haven't used the Notification Manager, it'll put up
an alert box with some text in the System Font, and an OK button.  Usually.
  I launch Microsoft Word, and I go over to another computer, and blast a
message over to the machine running Word, and the NM dialog comes up.  But lo
and behold!  The text isn't Chicago, it's Geneva!  I look at the menus, and
they're ALL in Geneva now.  No more Chicago style menus.
  I run some other programs (FullWrite, Studio/8, WriteNow) to make sure this
wasn't a universal occurance.  Nothing out of the ordinary in those prgorams.
  I go back to Word and diddle some more.  I open a document, then send the
message.  It comes up fine.  I quit, run it again, and type some stuff, and
send a message to the NM.  It comes up in Geneva.  So I quit, run Word again,
change the font, and send my message.  Everything's peachy.
  So it seems that Microsoft (bless their hearts) is making some obscure
assumption about the state of the system when their program starts up.  Or
they're messing with something they're not supposed to somewhere.
  Neat, eh?

  -- Dean

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