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From: han@apple.COM (Byron Han, Project Scapegoat)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Hiding editable text
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Date: 11 Jul 90 22:46:06 GMT
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In article <25533@cs.yale.edu> tarr-michael@CS.Yale.EDU (michael tarr) 
writes:
> I have a modal dialog box with some radio buttons and associated
> editable text fields. When a button is clicked I want the appropriate
> text field to appear, when its opponent is clicked I wish the field to
> disappear and become uneditable (not just hidden as in drawing over
> it)...

What I like to do is to change the editText item to a statText item.

use HideDItem(), GetDItem(), SetDItem(), ShowDitem() in that order.

I also like to add a dimmed outline box around the (now) statText item in 
the same position as the outline box for the editText item.

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