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From: amanda@intercon.com (Amanda Walker)
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Subject: Re: How does one set a single edittext item's font in a dialog?
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Date: 27 Nov 89 02:33:36 GMT
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In article <21431@ut-emx.UUCP>, rdd@walt.cc.utexas.edu (Robert Dorsett) writes:
> I have 
> several edittext items in a modeless dialog.  I want one of them to be in 
> monaco 9, the rest in Chicago 12.

The main problem you will run into is that the Dialog Manager uses a single
TextEdit record for *all* of the editText items.  As you click on different
items (or hit the tab key) it changes where this TextEdit record sits, and
points the hText field at the contents of the item.

The simplest way to get the effect you want would probably be to take the
item that's supposed to be monaco 9, make it a UserItem, and handle clicks
and keystrokes in it yourself with a dialog filter procedure.  This way you
can maintain your own TextEdit record for that particular item, and thus
have full control over the font, size, etc.

Handling the tab key and the insertion point could be hairy, though...

Amanda Walker
InterCon Systems Corporation
amanda@intercon.com
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