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From: englandr@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Scott Louis Englander)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard,comp.sys.mac
Subject: Using the ShowDialog XCMD
Keywords: XCMD ShowDialog dialog
Message-ID: <14738@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Date: 21 Mar 90 20:11:15 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Organization: Princeton University, NJ
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I'd like to use Jay Hodgdon's ShowDialog XCMD to add dialog boxes to an
application written in FoxBASE.  I could do the dialogs as SCREENs in
Fox, but this saves me some programming.  I've gotten the XCMD to work
fine from FoxBASE.  There are a couple of things i want to do, however,
that don't appear to be possible with ShowDialog, although i may be
misunderstanding something:

1.  A dialog with just 3 radio buttons, an "OK" button, and a "Cancel"
button.  ShowDialog type 3 can provide these but seems to require an
editable text field (I tried to make the field small or off-screen, but
it crashed!).

2.  A dialog with two editable text fields, to which i pass 2 default
values.  Type 2 allows more than one editable field, but only accepts
one default entry.  I can include defaults for the others when editing
the DITL resource in ResEdit, but can't modify them on the fly that
way.

There are other things as well, but these are the most important.  Also:
the author lists addresses on CIS, GEnie, and MacNet.  Can these be
reached via Internet?

Please e-mail replies, and i'll summarize to the net.  Thanks!
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                                               - Scott