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Re: Open Handler, when is it called?

> At 12:01 -0700 15/5/01, "Glenn L. Austin" <email@hidden> wrote:
>>
>>> Les R. Titze <email@hidden> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I had to work around this issue in my code to determine when to show a new
>>>> untitled document.
>>>
>>> After thinking about it overnight (cook slowly...), I realize that my real
>>> problem is that my application does two different things on startup. If a
>>> document was double-clicked, it should just open the document. Otherwise,
>>> it
>>> should show a login window.
>>
>> The best way to determine whether the user double-clicked on the application
>> or a document is to add both an OpenDocument and OpenApplication handler.
>> You'll always get an OpenDocument from double-clicking a document, and
>> you'll always get an OpenApplication from double-clicking the application.
>
> But can you guarantee that the OpenApplication handler *won't* be
> called if you start the application by double clicking a document, or
> at least that the OpenDocument handler will be called first? If not,
> that doesn't really help you.

You can guarantee that the OpenApplication handler *won't* be called if the
OpenDocument handler is called.

You can find documentation on the OpenApplication handler in the "MRJToolkit
Errata" document in the SDK.

--
Glenn L. Austin
Computer Wizard and Race Car Driver
<email@hidden>
<http://www.austin-home.com/glenn/>

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 >Re: Open Handler, when is it called? (From: Rolf Howarth <email@hidden>)



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