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Article #19447Re: enabling the correct entries in the 'Edit' menu
From: lsr
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1987 23:37
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1987 23:37
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In article <876@cadnetix.UUCP> jva@cadnetix.UUCP (Joe VanAndel) writes:
>
>I have discovered how to determine that a desk-accessory window had
>been activated or de-activated, and enabled/disabled the menu
>items appropriately, but then I discovered that I had missed the
>case of the desk-accesssory being closed, while its window was active.
In MacApp we check for an active desk accessory after each event. You do
this by looking at the window kind field of the FrontWindow. DA Windows
have a negative window kind (it is the DA refnum). If FrontWindow returns
NIL, then there are no windows open.
--
Larry Rosenstein
Object Specialist
Apple Computer
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!labrea!decwrl!pyramid!voder!apple!lsr From: lsr@apple.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: enabling the correct entries in the 'Edit' menu Message-ID: <6328@apple.UUCP> Date: Wed, 23-Sep-87 19:37:28 EDT Article-I.D.: apple.6328 Posted: Wed Sep 23 19:37:28 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 26-Sep-87 09:09:24 EDT References: <876@cadnetix.UUCP> Reply-To: lsr@apple.UUCP (Larry Rosenstein) Organization: Advanced Technology Group, Apple Computer Lines: 21 Keywords: menu, edit, cut, paste