Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!amdahl!apple!tecot
From: tecot@Apple.COM (Ed Tecot)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Custom menu bars
Message-ID: <11381@apple.Apple.Com>
Date: 1 Jun 88 02:04:10 GMT
References: <10241@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>
Reply-To: tecot@apple.UUCP (Ed Tecot)
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In article <10241@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> lippin@math.berkeley.edu writes:
>I started working on a custom MBDF yesterday, and so for the first

Don't do it!  I strongly recommend that no one attempt to write a custom MBDF.
Since IM 5 was published, the standard MBDF has been changed significantly;
a new message has been added, and another one has been expanded.  I expect
it to continue to change in the future.  It is very unlikely that any MBDF
written will be able to deal with future system software, including the one
we currently ship.  It will have to evolve.

Hopefully, in the future, this will change; but for now, please do not write
your own menu bar definition functions.

						_emt