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- From: mxmora@unix.sri.com (Matthew Xavier Mora)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
- Subject: Re: Many Questions about _Launch, but few answers...
- Message-ID: <mxmora-140992152427@css-mac1.sri.com>
- Date: 14 Sep 92 22:34:17 GMT
- References: <Sep.14.16.35.56.1992.3303@aramis.rutgers.edu>
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- In article <Sep.14.16.35.56.1992.3303@aramis.rutgers.edu>,
- mezrich@aramis.rutgers.edu (Reuben Mezrich) wrote:
-
-
- > I think that the _Launch command must be one of the greatest
- > mysteries (sp?) of the pre-system 7 toolbox. Does anybody have any
- > idea how to properly use this trap ? I've have a fair amount of
- > success in using it, but have run into the difficulty that, under
- > System 6, multifinder does not seem to use it at all. I've used the
- > _Launch command successfully under system 6 running the finder, and
- > under system 7, but have had no success under system 6 running multifinder.
- > It does launch the application, but it does not behave as it should
- > (it clears the screen and closes other background applications).
-
- Its not a great mystery, your just not supposed to use it.
- You probably have the wrong flags set.
-
- I have used the version supplied in the technote # 126
- "Sublaunching:Playing the shell Game" and it worked for me. Show us your
- code and maybe we can see what you are doing wrong. Don't forget the you
- need to set both high bits
- (Launchflags := $C000000) to sublaunch.
-
- Matt
-