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From: tim@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Maroney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Modeless dialogs, what am I doing wrong?
Message-ID: <8029@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: 18 Jul 89 02:49:28 GMT
References: <1484@ndmath.UUCP> <14455@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU>
Reply-To: tim@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Maroney)
Organization: Eclectic Software, San Francisco
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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?

In article <14455@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> earleh@eleazar.dartmouth.edu
(Earle R. Horton) writes:
>	DialogPeek xyzzy;	/* Points to your Modeless dialog. */
>
>	TEIdle(xyzzy->textH);

That will work, but a better way is to call DialogSelect in response
to null events.  I have philosophical objections to using DialogPeek.
After all, why be low level when you can be high level?
-- 
Tim Maroney, Mac Software Consultant, sun!hoptoad!tim, tim@toad.com

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