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From: hoppmain@doc.ic.ac.uk (Hope Plus Maintenance)
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Subject: Styled dialogs without color + RE: root dirID
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Date: 16 Oct 89 15:58:42 GMT
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Organization: Dept. of Computing, Imperial College, London, UK.
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Question: I'm using System 6.0.2 on a Mac Plus, can I persuade
the Dialog Manager to use styled textedit? I've tried putting
in the appropriate 'dctb' etc. resources with colour info left
default/not-specified and just specified the text style/font
but nothing happens. Any ideas?

Answer: In "Re: ggetting the full pathname" it was questioned
whether the root dirID was DEFINED to be 2... see IM-IV file
manager chapter - where it defines this to be true. Interesting
though is that if you use 'PBGetCatInfo' on a volume it returns
a dirID of 1 if the volume is MFS (2 for HFS), but if you
try it out on a MFS file it returns a parent dirID of 2...
Is this documented anywhere?

				Nigel (np@doc.ic.ac.uk)