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Article #40377Re: Using Suitcase within applications
From: Bob Hablutzel
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 1989 13:42
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 1989 13:42
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> Is there anyway to make fonts available to a word processor from within the > application using Suitcase? I've found that the fonts aren't available in > Word or MacWrite until the user quits the application and the re-launches > the word processor. > Why does this happen, and does anyone know any ways around the problem? The reason is that the applications build the list of font as part of the initialization process. If you add fonts to the list after the application is running, the application has no way of telling to update it's menus to reflect this change. Therefore you have to exit and relaunch. Bob Hablutzel Wildwood Software BOB@NUACC.ACNS.NWU.EDU
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