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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
- Subject: Re: more about Multifinder?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug21.100606.3292@otago.ac.nz>
- From: michael@otago.ac.nz
- Date: 21 Aug 92 10:06:06 +1300
- References: <HEYES.92Aug19141207@dadev.cebaf.gov>
- Distribution: comp.sys.mac.programmer
- Organization: University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
- Lines: 27
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- In article <HEYES.92Aug19141207@dadev.cebaf.gov>, heyes@dadev.cebaf.gov (Graham Heyes) writes:
- > I need some information about Multifinder and don't
- > know where or if it is availible. Basically how does
- > Multifinder keep track of applications currently
- > installed, which is in the forground etc. There must
- > be a data-structure or some other mechanism availible
- > somewhere sence I have seen INIT's which install a
- > menu from which an aplication can be selected, like
- > the system 7 application switching menu.
-
- I would like to know this too: I have (of course) been using the Process
- Manager calls under System 7, but I was disappointed to find that they aren't
- there under 6.0.5.
-
- I did learn an interesting thing about the Process Manager too; it takes some
- time to kick in and it gets taken away early at system shutdown time. If you
- are using it from a system extension, you need to do a TrapAvailable check on
- _OSDispatch *every time* you are thinking of using these calls, because its
- possible that they have been quietly removed by something...
-
-
- Michael(tm) Hamel, Computing Services Centre, University of Otago, New Zealand
-
- LUPPITT (n.)
- The piece of leather which hangs off the bottom of your shoe before you can
- be bothered to get it mended.
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