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From: sdh@wind.bellcore.com (Stephen D Hawley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Dialog Problems
Message-ID: <17225@bellcore.bellcore.com>
Date: 18 Jul 89 18:07:05 GMT
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>main()
>{
>  InitStuff();
>  OpenResFile("\pRFile.rsrc");
>  myDialog=GetNewDialog(myDLOGref,0,-1);
>}
>
>The dialog gets drawn on the screen, but only the first two items are drawn
>in it????? ( the OK/Cancel buttons ).
>
>What's wrong?, Have I fallen into 'Trap for Beginners #1 of 999'

if the dialog box is modal, you have to call DrawDialog(), I believe to get
it to show up.

If it is a modelss dialog box, it will be drawn when you have you event loop
all patched together.  When a dialog box is called up with GetNewDialog(),
only some of the items are drawn, the rest are taken care of by an update
event that is generated.  If you have the IsDialogEvent() text and
DialogSelect(), the rest will be drawn auto-magically.

clear?

Steve Hawley
sdh@flash.bellcore.com


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