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- From: ldo@waikato.ac.nz (Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Waikato University)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
- Subject: Re: How do you launch a Control Panel?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep4.173944.10617@waikato.ac.nz>
- Date: 4 Sep 92 17:39:44 +1200
- References: <mxmora-030992150746@css-mac1.sri.com>
- Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.programmer
- Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
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- In article <mxmora-030992150746@css-mac1.sri.com>, mxmora@unix.sri.com (Matthew Xavier Mora) writes:
- > How do you launch a control panel under system 7? LaunchApplication
- > doesn't seem to work. LaunchDeskAccessory doesn't work either. (I know but
- > I tried it anyway). Is OpenDeskAcc my only hope?
- >
- > Has anybody done this? I can't post an event to the finder because it might
- > be closed or busy coping a file.
-
- Control panels don't run as separate processes with Finder 7. They run within
- the Finder's process context. That's why there is no Process Manager call for
- opening them; you really have to do it by posting an event to the Finder.
-
- My Default Application control panel relies on this: that's how it's able to
- patch the running Finder without installing INITs or any such black magic.
-
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