Who rules the menu bar?

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From: tomc
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1987 21:00

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I have a question concerning the use of the menu bar.  
Since the current application gets to use the menu 
bar for its menus, doen't this entitle the application
to user the WHOLE menubar?  

The problem.  Programs like Switcher and Multifinder
user the right hand side of the menu bar to put a small
'picture'.  (ie double arrow, or the current application)

If an applications menus were to reach that far right,
who has the right to use that space.  It seems to me that
the menu bar belongs to the application, and not the
running environment.

In a program I'm writing I put my own SICN's in the
right side of the menu bar, which would compete with
Switch or Mulitfinder.  

Who has the right of way?

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