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From: lippin@brahms.berkeley.edu (The Apathist)
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Subject: Re: Query:  Double lines on default button...How?
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Date: 3 Jul 90 16:39:43 GMT
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I find that an inactive PICT item does a wonderful job of highlighting
the default button.  It has two advantages over drawing the ring "by
hand" -- it uses no code, and it updates whenever necessary.

I even use this method in alerts -- although the dialog manager draws
the outline for you, it doesn't update it if your window gets covered
(by MultiFinder or a screen saver).  A similar problem applies to the
icons for NoteAlert, CautionAlert, and StopAlert, and in this case can
be solved with an appropriate ICON item.

					--Tom Lippincott
					  lippin@math.berkeley.edu

		"It's a multi-purpose shape: a box"
					--David Byrne, "True Stories"