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- From: jpugh@apple.com (Jon Pugh)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
- Subject: Re: How does my app know that its document was double clicked?
- Message-ID: <jpugh-070193235621@kip2-43.apple.com>
- Date: 8 Jan 93 07:59:01 GMT
- References: <1992Dec31.154633.25705@alw.nih.gov> <1992Dec31.205747.16147@netcom.com> <1992Dec31.213234.17023@reed.edu> <1993Jan7.121808.5075@informatik.uni-bremen.de>
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- In article <1993Jan7.121808.5075@informatik.uni-bremen.de>,
- g16m@alf.zfn.uni-bremen.de (Mick Schmidt) wrote:
- >
- > Now I have a short question! ;-)
- > Does this work under Sys 6 too?
- > Normally it won't work to "pass" a document to a running application by
- > double-clicking it in the (Multi-)Finder Window. The Finder only says
- > something like the above.
- >
- > However there are a few applications that can be used like this, for example
- > MS Word 5.0, and i always wondered how it works. I didn't find anything on
- > that subject in IM I to V nor in the Spinside Mac Stack.
-
- There's a Tech Note on MultiFinder that explains this stuff.
-
- Basically, the puppet strings (the name of the hack that patches SFGetFile
- and then yanks your Open... menu item) were written for MultiFinder under
- System 6 and work there, however no other applications can cause them to
- occur, unlike under System 7.
-
- Jon
-