he &quot;apply&quot; message is sent out.</P>
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For example, a dialog box may contain a list of settings that represent the state of a paragraph in a word processor. If the user ever actually changes those settings, the dialog box is marked as modified, but the changes are not actually made until the object receives notification to apply its changes (send out its apply message).</P>
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By default, these generic objects check whether their state has been modified since the last apply message has been sent