finnegan@dhw68k.cts.com (Greg Finnegan) (08/23/90)
Greetings:
I'm working on an application that will (is, sort of) print PICT
files that are scattered all over the place (different volumes -
floppies, HDs, CDs, etc.) The application keeps track of the
last known location of the file so it can grab it during printing.
The problem is that when it can't find the file (either because the
volume is not mounted or someone moved or deleted the file), I
want to pop up a std file box and ask the user if they would
like to look for it and/or let them eject & insert disks. This
seems to give the printing manager extreme fits and causes lots
of spurious bombs and weird printing errors. Especially under
MultiFinder when a disk has been ejected, but still appears
on the desktop and the application/file mgr knows about the
volume and asks the user to insert the disk -- major crash time.
I don't think I've ever seen such a feature in any application -
is that because I shouldn't be doing nasty things like this
during printing??? (It's not totally devastating, since I keep
a low resolution copy of the file around for just such an
occassion, but I'm sure most people would like the real thing
at all times)
Greg.
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