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From: wombat@claris.com (Scott Lindsey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Death of the Dialog Mgr?
Keywords: drew, cleave, bravo, census
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Date: 1 Dec 89 22:35:55 GMT
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To anyone at DTS: I thought that this discussion was probably of interest
to many people who read comp.sys.apple.

While looking through the Toolbox Reference, Vol. 3, I noticed the following
in the Dialog Manager section:

 *	The Dialog Manager does not support dialog item type values of
	picItem or iconItem, contrary to what the Toolbox Reference states
	in Table 6-3 on page 6-12.

I find this interesting because iconItems seem to work quite nicely, thank
you, in code that was written before I found this remark in the documentation.
Is this simply a statement that such constructs may or may not work, but are
not "officially" supported, meaning that they may cease to work in future
versions of the system?

Does Apple have an official position on use of the dialog manager versus the
window manager?  I know that there is some preference being given to the
window manager over the dialog manager (resources, extended controls, etc)
but I'm wondering if there's any official statement as to why.
(I finally got an extended control [a list control for those who wonder] to
work in a dialog... but it sure wasn't easy; or clean).  It seems to me that,
yes, you can duplicate anything the dialog manager does by using the window
manager, but it can be more time consuming and difficult to get to that stage.
The dialog manager is a useful tool that shouldn't be abandoned without due
cause.


Scott Lindsey     |"Cold and misty morning. I heard a warning borne in the air
Claris Corp.      |    About an age of power when no one had an hour to spare"
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