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From: dfs059@ipl.jpl.nasa.gov (Dan Stanfill)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Modeless dialogs, what am I doing wrong?
Message-ID: <5266@ipl.jpl.nasa.gov>
Date: 17 Jul 89 15:02:34 GMT
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Image Processing Lab
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>In article <1484@ndmath.UUCP> milo@ndmath.UUCP (Greg Corson) writes:
>....
>>What do I have to do to get the cursor to blink normally in the EditText
>>items of a modeless dialog?
>
>        DialogPeek xyzzy;       /* Points to your Modeless dialog. */
>
>        TEIdle(xyzzy->textH);
>
>Earle R. Horton

NO!  While that may work, for a modeless dialog, IsDialogEvent() handles the 
cursor blinking.  The secret is to make sure you call it even when there is no
event, as in the following example:


    something_happened = GetNextEvent(everyEvent, &event);
    if (IsDialogEvent(&event))                /* call even if nothing happened */
    {                                         /* to make cursor blink          */
      doDialogs(&event);
      if (event.what != keyDown) continue;
    }
    if (something_happened)
    {
        .
        .
        .


Dan Stanfill
dfs@mipl8.jpl.nasa.gov