Re: Window resource sharing?

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From: Peter da Silva
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 1989 03:54

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In article <10780@well.UUCP>, ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab) writes:
> In article <11640010@hpfcdc.HP.COM> cunniff@hpfcdc.HP.COM (Ross Cunniff) writes:
> >	1.  Is it legal for multiple windows to share the same
> >	    Menu list?

> 	Possible, but problematic.  The NextMenu pointers will be going
> every which way, depending on which Window last had the menu.

If you have several windows open simultaneously, and treat it all as one
input stream, it's no problem.

> Also, if you have CHECKIT MenuItems,
> then one Window may change the state of the CHECKED flags behind the others'
> back.

This is, again, not a problem of you design the program to consider it one big
shared menu.
-- 
Peter "Have you hugged your wolf today" da Silva  `-_-'  Hackercorp.
...texbell!sugar!peter, or peter@sugar.uu.net      'U`

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From: peter@sugar.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
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Subject: Re: Window resource sharing?
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Date: 21 Feb 89 03:54:03 GMT
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