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From: jnh@ecemwl.ncsu.edu (Joseph N. Hall)
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Subject: multi-button CDEF, was Re: List Manager questions
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Date: 28 Jul 89 19:54:32 GMT
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In article <8156@hoptoad.uucp> tim@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Maroney) writes:
>...  Still,
>wouldn't it have been nice if Apple had added list items to dialogs?
>It would save us all some coding.  ...

This reminds me of an idea I had recently (probably not unique) which is
that a CDEF incorporating an entire vertical stack or horizontal row of
radio buttons would be awfully convenient ... you would supply an array of
titles in the refcon field, and the CDEF would work like a properly-managed
set of "ordinary" radio buttons, returning values of 1, 2, 3, etc., 
depending upon which button was currently "on."  I have no idea why
Apple didn't supply this control or something similar to it with some
version of the system software.  One of these days I'll write it ...

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