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From: oster@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu (David Phillip Oster)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Rectangles in DITL's
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Date: 15 Jun 89 02:11:22 GMT
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In article <2354@etive.ed.ac.uk> nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell) writes:
_>Can somebody give a quick explanation of the Rect's in some of the
_>dialog DITL's, in particular for CNTL dialog items (scroll-bars and
_>the like, although I'm using custom CDEF's). The CNTL contains a rect,
_>and the DITL item contains a rect as well. Which gets used?  Can I
_>safely set the other one to (0,0,0,0)?
Both are used: The control is "drawn" first at the rectangle in the CTRL
resource, then resized by the one in the DITL. (This doesn't matter for
CDEFs, much. I believe if you give a tall rectangle in the CTRL and a wide
one in the DITL you'll get a really funny looking scroll bar.
They don't have to have the same left corner, but the safest thing, for
a custom CDEF, is to make them the same size.
_>   I've tried poking about with ResEdit, but it doesn't behave well
_>with DITL's. Double-clicking such an item throws you straight into the
_>CNTL.
If your custom CDEF is correct, then you must be using an ancient version
of ResEdit. Get  a new version from APDA.
Modern ResEdits include a "open as dialog item" for just such an
occasion.

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