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- Item 8256040 17-July-89 10:35
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- From: D2086 Efficient Field Svc, C Faith, PRT
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- To: LMILLETT Millett, Lonnie
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- cc: MACAPP.TECH$ MACAPP Tech
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- Sub: ViewEdit extensible?
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- Lonnie,
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- I am working on a Context sensitive help system for MacApp in conjunction with
- a project I am doing for the MacApp Developers Association.
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- I need to modify the definition for views to include an additional Longint
- value, to correspond to the exact help information that will come up for a
- given view in the target chain, or mousepress. This is probably going to screw
- up interaction with viewEdit but it is the only natural place for this
- information to go. I would make another resource and map between views and the
- help resource but there is no unique specification for a given view even within
- a single view resource, hence no way to differentiate between 'stc ' that is a
- company name and 'stc ' that is a type of fruit, each of which one would
- presumably generate different explanations in the ideal world. Hence the only
- place to differentiate absolutely is in the view resource itself.
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- Is ViewEdit based on some sort of expandable type file or is everything
- hardcoded? In other words, am I going to be able to modify viewEdit to include
- this extra LongInt value for view resources?
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- If I cannot expand viewEdit then I will be forced to create kludgy
- alternatives, silly scripts to go back and forth between the views I create and
- the ones viewEdit assumes. Sort of like what PostRez does with menu's.
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- Are we going to see viewEdit before 2.0B9 gets to us? Is there any chance we
- would ever get to have the source for viewEdit as another example program?
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- regards,
- Curtis Faith
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