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- From: dlyons@Apple.COM (David A Lyons)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Subject: Re: Re: System 6.0
- Message-ID: <70663@apple.Apple.COM>
- Date: 30 Jul 92 17:54:25 GMT
- References: <1992Jul27.111653.23387@crash.cts.com>
- Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA
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- In article <1992Jul27.111653.23387@crash.cts.com> johnf@gnh-digibits.cts.com (John Fulton) writes:
- >[...]
- >I have two NDA word processors, and the same thing happens with both. If
- >I create and save a document to an open folder, when I close the NDA, the open
- >folder does not show the document. In other words, the system refreshes the
- >pre-existing desktop but does not check to see whether anything has changed.
- >
- >I suspect, in fact, that the NDA word processors are at fault -- that they
- >are not telling the operating system to refresh its data. [...]
-
- Starting with 6.0, there is a way that NDAs (or whatever) can tell the
- Finder they changed the contents of a folder, so that the Finder should
- re-read it if the window is open. -- NDAs written before 6.0 don't do
- that, of course.
-
- (It would be nice if the Finder noticed automatically, instead of having
- to be told. -- There's a way it can do that (receive volume-changed events
- in its GS/OS Notification procedure). The trick is to avoid excessive
- re-updating of windows when the Finder itself changes something and then
- gets informed of the change.)
-
- --
- David A. Lyons, Apple Computer, Inc. | DAL Systems
- Apple II System Software Engineer | P.O. Box 875
- Internet:dlyons@apple.com | Cupertino, CA 95015-0875
-
- My opinions are my own, not Apple's.
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