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From: breidenb@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Oliver Breidenbach)
Subject: Re: Why 'fmnu' resources in Finder 7 ? (was Re: ResEdit & System 7.0
Message-ID: <1991May3.090059.6101@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE>
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Date: Fri, 3 May 1991 09:00:59 GMT
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In article <kiran.673221932@copper>, kiran@copper.ucs.indiana.edu (Kiran Wagle) writes:
|> 
|> >Greg@AppleLink.Apple.Com (Greg Marriott) writes:
|> >>'fmnu' resources are another undocumented (i.e. unsupported) piece of Sys 7.
|> >>It's pretty easy to "hack" out what to change to add command keys to Finder
|> >>menus... but don't write a utility to do it and expect it to work in future
|> >>versions of the system software.  Any undocumented part of the
|> >>system is subject to change without notice.
|> 
|> tj@kona.cs.ucla.edu (Tom Johnson) writes:
|> >So, can someonce explain why Apple is using a different menu resource format?
|> >What new and exciting features do fmnu's have that the regular old
|> >MENU resources don't have?
|> 
|> Good question....

hey, I always thought those fmnu resources are made and required by
MacApp. They provide additional functionality supplied by the MacApp libraries.

Am I wrong?

Oliver.

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		Oliver Breidenbach, CSD, Technische Universitaet, Muenchen
                      E-Mail: Oliver.Breidenbach@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.de

