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From: t-alexc@microsoft.UUCP (Alex CHAFFEE)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: dialogs with ModalDialog()
Summary: Use TextBox( ..., teJustRight )
Message-ID: <56257@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 2 Aug 90 03:23:07 GMT
References: <37353@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU>
Reply-To: t-alexc@microsoft.UUCP (Alex CHAFFEE)
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Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA
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In article <37353@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> trajmar@oahu.cs.ucla.edu (Peter Trajmar) writes:
>
>2) Is there a good way to right align the text in an editText item?

The problem with this is for inputting - how do you right align text
as it's being typed and make it look nice?  What I'd do is keep it a
normal editText item while it's the active item, but as soon as the
user tabs/clicks away from it, redraw its text using

	GetDItem ( theDialog, itemNo, &itemType, &itemHandle,
		&itemRect ); 
	GetIText ( itemHandle, st ); 
	TextBox( st+1, *st, &itemRect, teJustRight );

Of course, you'd have to do this again for update events.  To be
really slick, you could save the text in a global and change it to a
userItem whose draw procedure TextBox()s that saved text.  Then when
it's selected again, change it back.

Disclaimer: I just made that up, so it's probably wrong.

>Peter Trajmar
>(trajmar@cs.ucla.edu)

- Alex Chaffee
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