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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: <8070@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: 20 Jul 89 03:58:51 GMT
References: <1484@ndmath.UUCP> <14455@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> <8029@hoptoad.uucp> <14490@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU>
Reply-To: tim@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Maroney)
Organization: Eclectic Software, San Francisco
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In article <14490@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> earleh@northstar.dartmouth.edu
(Earle Horton) writes:
>     If you're using modeless dialogs, you might also want to set the
>mouse cursor to the iBeamCursor cursor whenever the mouse is in an
>active editText item.
>
>plugh = GetCursor(iBeamCursor);
>GetMouse(&plover);
>if( xyzzy == (DialogPeek)FrontWindow()){
>	if(PtInRect(mouse,&(*xyzzy->textH)->viewRect)){
>		SetCursor(*plugh);
>	}else{
>		SetCursor(&qd.arrow);
>	}
>}
>     I was kind of wondering how Mr. Mahoney gets around his
>philosophical problem with DialogPeek here.

Well, Mr. Norton (or should I say, Emperor Norton), you use the
FindDItem call.  As it says in Inside Mac IV-60, "FindDItem is useful
for changing the cursor when it's over a particular item."  Something
along the lines of:

	if (Rom85 > 0 && (item = FindDItem(win, &where)) >= 0) {
		GetDItem(win, ++item, &type, &h, &box);
		if (type == editText || type == editText + itemDisable)
			SetCursor(*GetCursor(iBeamCursor));
		else	SetCursor(&arrow);
	}
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Tim Maroney, Mac Software Consultant, sun!hoptoad!tim, tim@toad.com

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