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From: bob@accuvax.nwu.edu (Bob Hablutzel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Re: DA Handler Improvements (Was: Finder Improvements)
Message-ID: <10330089@accuvax.nwu.edu>
Date: 2 Dec 88 14:21:15 GMT
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Organization: Northwestern U, Evanston IL, USA
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> [ Lots of talk about DA Handler]
>
> So here we are: 
> Why is there no command key equivalent for "Close" and "Quit"?  

There is the command key equivalents for Close and Quit because Apple would
have to be sure that the DA is not intercepting these events, _perhaps for
some other use_. Suppose there exists a DA with an option, for example, of 
"Quote", and the designer of the DA has bound command-Q to this option. There
is sits in the menu, just begging to be used, but when it is actually invoked
it not only does perform as expected, but also closes _all_ your DAs. 

Since Apple did not reserve command-q and command-w for it's own use with DAs,
it cannot preempt their use. (Well, it _could_, of course, but it ain't worth
it).

>	Gary

Bob Hablutzel		BOB@NUACC.ACNS.NWU.EDU
Disclaimer:	The above might charitably be called a "guess"