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From: roy@phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Scrolling lists in dialogs
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Date: 12 Dec 90 18:59:09 GMT
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pepke@gw.scri.fsu.edu (Eric Pepke) writes:
> there is an entire chapter in the USENET Macintosh Programmer's Guide.

	How does one go about getting said document.  Sounds like it might
be increadibly useful.

> [Dialogs] have two really big advantages [...] The second is that the
> layout is defined by resources.

	What is to prevent you from making a dialog-ish window using the
Window Manager, as suggested in TN-203, but using ResEdit to layout an
analagous dialog and then read the DLOG/DITL resource(s) to build your own
window?
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