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From: jackiw@cs.swarthmore.edu (Nick Jackiw)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: When to use a _real_ moda
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Date: 16 Mar 90 19:26:45 GMT
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ccc_ldo@waikato.ac.nz (Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Waikato University) writes:
> I never use the Alert traps. I invariably want to centre my alerts horizontally
> on the screen regardless of screen size, and I can't do that with Alert,
> whereas I can with modal dialogues.


x:=GetResource('ALRT',res_ID);
with AlterTHndl(x)^^.boundsRect
 do
  begin
   width:=right-left;
   left:=(Screenbits.bounds.right+ScreenBits.bounds.left-width) div 2;
   right:=left+width
  end;
i:=Alert(res_ID);

> This also has the pleasant side effect
> that my alerts will never beep at you.

Set the "soundN" parameters in the ALRT's stageList to 0.

> Lawrence D'Oliveiro
> Computer Services Dept, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
> Any opinions expressed by the author of this posting are sacred to
> Epimetheus, the Greek god of hindsight.

Understandable. :-)




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