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Re: System contextual menus


  • Subject: Re: System contextual menus
  • From: Ondra Cada <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 22:03:51 +0100

David,

>>>>>> David Catmull (DC) wrote at Thu, 31 Jan 2002 10:13:57 -0800:
DC> >So it is a Carbon-specific API. Any way, it would be *QUITE* *BAD* to
DC> >exploit it instead of the file Services, which are *THE* system-wide API
DC> >for providing file-based services in OSX.
DC>
DC> Services can't be considered "system-wide" until Apple makes it work in
DC> Carbon apps. The current Carbon Event based implementation leaves
DC> something to be desired, even aside from the fact that it's broken.

Sorry, but you can't blame a system-wide API for problems which some
compatibility library have with it!

Which applies even in case the compatibility library happens to be
Apple-made, and even in case it happens to be used by all the so-called "big
names".
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Ondra Cada
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