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From: minich@d.cs.okstate.edu (Robert Minich)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: dialogs with ModalDialog()
Message-ID: <1990Aug2.175108.9778@d.cs.okstate.edu>
Date: 2 Aug 90 17:51:08 GMT
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> 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.
 
  This is completely speculation, but how about handling the text
yourself in an offscreen bitmap and just CopyBits() to the screen after
every character/delete? It may be more work than it's worth, but I think
it wouldn't be as disturbing as watching something flop back and forth
as you tab through the items.

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

Same here. :-)
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