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From: maller@applelink.apple.com (Steve Maller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Blinking Insertion Point
Message-ID: <11111@goofy.Apple.COM>
Date: 5 Nov 90 19:06:12 GMT
References: <1990Oct31.024848.24733@wpi.WPI.EDU>
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In article <1990Oct31.024848.24733@wpi.WPI.EDU> nuk@wpi.WPI.EDU (Jacob W 
Anderson) writes:
> In IM, it says that the use of MODALDIALG(filterproc:ptr,itemhit:integer)
> will take care of the blinking cursor if the filterproc will return
> false, is this true and my programming skills are not very good or what? 
 

In order for the Dialog Manager to do your work for you, the editText item 
in your DITL resource must be DISABLED.

Don't worry; this is a common misunderstanding...

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