On Tue, 18 Aug 1998, Kei Takikawa wrote:
> > However, is it really so that the scope of an Application (this is what "~"
> > means) is defined from the engine, not the Application object itself?
>
> Well, what we would like to know from the Application object are the
> Application name, the author and other description about the application.
> We may use the Object Info for this purpose. However, if only the
> Application name was not fixed as "startup", we could at least know the
> Application name from the Group Id.
Yes, but this implies that the GroupID of the Application object must eitehr be
encoded ("someApp/startup" 0), or it has to rely on the assumption that the
engine knows the GroupID before the actual Application object is loaded.
BR,
Andreas
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