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- Item 0720341 3-June-89 18:31
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- From: D2086 Efficient Field Svc, C Faith, PRT
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- To: MACAPP.TECH$ MACAPP Tech
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- Sub: Command Handling Adequate??
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- I am wondering whether the command chain capabilities of MacApp are adequate.
- Specifically the default actions of MacApp with regard to targets and
- nextHandlers seems to make a lot of things very difficult to implement cleanly.
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- For example:
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- Suppose you wish to have a document handle menu commands whether or not the
- window of that document happens to be the front window. That document will not
- be in the command chain the minute you deactivate its window. This limits
- documents activities to those that pertain only to active windows (at least
- without a lot of fuss). If you wanted to have a document handle commands that
- created windows for that document, you would not be able to do so if a window
- of another document was active.
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- I suggest that there be a Cohandler chain for commands other than AlienEvents
- and idleEvents.
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- The implications of the current scheme are that documents are forced to be
- transient controllers.
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- Curtis Faith
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