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From: bskendig@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Brian Kendig)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: disabling 'Quit'
Message-ID: <14136@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Date: 27 Feb 90 21:35:20 GMT
References: <4097@hub.UUCP> <14123@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Reply-To: bskendig@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Brian Kendig)
Organization: Systems Engineering, NASA Space Station Freedom Project
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In article <4097@hub.UUCP> 73747.1257@compuserve.com writes:
>I'm no HyperCard wizard, but it strikes me that something like disabling
>the 'Quit' menu item would be a pretty strange and difficult thing to do.
>If anyone has addressed the problem, let me know, or a friend of mine
>(who's the one typing this posting) will have to try and figure out how
>to write some nasty deceptive XCMD for me. Save him from this torture
>and send me the solution to my problem!

I screwed up in my original solution to this.  Here's a more correct
answer:

	on doMenu theMenuItem
	  if theMenuItem is not "Quit HyperCard" then pass doMenu
	end doMenu

This should do the trick nicely.

     << Brian >>

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