jamesm@sco.COM (James M. Moore) (01/19/89)
In article <2314@ilium.cs.swarthmore.edu> jackiw@ilium.UUCP (Nick Jackiw) writes: >When User shutsdown or restarts from the Finder, MultiFinder attempts to >QUIT your opened app by looking in the FILE menu for a "QUIT" item. Likewise, >when User double-clicks a doc tied to your app when your app is running, it >feeds your application as Mousedown in the MENU bar, and then forces >_MenuSelect to return the item# of your "OPEN" command. This usually is How does it tell which is which? I hope it doesn't do something foolish like look for the strings "Quit" and "Open," as not all software is written in English. (If it does do something this braindead, could someone plese tell me how to modify this string from my code?) -- ** James Moore ** ** Internet: jamesm@sco.com ** ** uucp: {decvax!microsoft | uunet | ucbvax!ucscc | amd}!sco!jamesm ** ** Nil clu no suim ar bith ag SCO ceard a bhfuil me ag scriobh anois. **
phil@mit-amt (Phil Sohn) (01/19/89)
In article <1322@viscous.sco.COM> jamesm@sco.COM (James M. Moore) writes: >In article <2314@ilium.cs.swarthmore.edu> jackiw@ilium.UUCP (Nick Jackiw) writes: >>When User shutsdown or restarts from the Finder, MultiFinder attempts to >>QUIT your opened app by looking in the FILE menu for a "QUIT" item. > >How does it tell which is which? I hope it doesn't do something >foolish like look for the strings "Quit" and "Open," as not all >software is written in English. (If it does do something this >braindead, could someone plese tell me how to modify this string from my >code?) Well, it does do something braindead like looks for Quit under the File menu. However, it is rather smart about the way it does it, looking first for a mst# resource that has the same format as a `STR ` resource. The resources are: 100 Name(s) of the menu containing the quit command 101 Name(s) of the menu item corresponding to the quit command 102 Name(s) of the menu containing the open document command 103 Name(s) of the menu item corresponding to the open document command For more info check out Tech Note 205 Multifinder Revisited. phil@ems.media.mit.edu
ech@pegasus.ATT.COM (Edward C Horvath) (01/20/89)
In <2314@ilium.cs.swarthmore.edu> jackiw@ilium.UUCP (Nick Jackiw) writes: !When User shutsdown or restarts from the Finder, MultiFinder attempts to !QUIT your opened app by looking in the FILE menu for a "QUIT" item. Likewise, !when User double-clicks a doc tied to your app when your app is running, it !feeds your application as Mousedown in the MENU bar, and then forces !_MenuSelect to return the item# of your "OPEN" command. This usually is The latter is not quite right: it jams an Open, then intercepts the call to SFGetFile and feeds back the selected file in the SFReply. In <1322@viscous.sco.COM> jamesm@sco.COM (James M. Moore) writes: ! How does it tell which is which? I hope it doesn't do something ! foolish like look for the strings "Quit" and "Open," as not all ! software is written in English. (If it does do something this ! braindead, could someone plese tell me how to modify this string from my ! code?) It does something precisely that "braindead." Makes sense to me, they wanted as many existing applications as possible to inherit this nifty feature. However, they did not do anything as "braindead" as to expect YOU to hack up THEIR system, or somebody else's apps. Instead, they provided a mechanism to override: extracted from TN 205 (8/88, rev'd 12/88): mstr 100 (mst# 100): name(s) of the menu containing the quit command mstr 101 (mst# 101): name(s) of the menu item for the quit command mstr 102 (mst# 102): name(s) of the menu containing the open command mstr 103 (mst# 103): name(s) of the menu item for the open command with a caveat that you shouldn't get too clever. See the full TechNote for details. mstr (mst#) resources are structured identically to STR (STR#) resources, use "Open as..." from ResEdit. BTW, I've successfully added mstr's to existing applications, with sanguine results. The drawback in many cases is that lots of applications disable 'Open' when there's an open document; a friendlier programming technique is to either support multiple documents, or do an implicit Close first when Open is selected. =Ned Horvath=
lsr@Apple.COM (Larry Rosenstein) (01/21/89)
In article <3493@mit-amt> phil@media-lab.media.mit.edu (Phil Sohn) writes: >looking first for a mst# resource that has the same format as a `STR ` Actually a mst# resource has the same format as a STR# resource, and a mstr resource is the same as a 'STR ' resource. You would use the mst# if your application changes the name of a menu item for some reason. -- Larry Rosenstein, Object Specialist Apple Computer, Inc. 20525 Mariani Ave, MS 46-B Cupertino, CA 95014 AppleLink:Rosenstein1 domain:lsr@Apple.COM UUCP:{sun,voder,nsc,decwrl}!apple!lsr