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From: jbr0@cbnews.att.com (joseph.a.brownlee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Scrolling lists in dialogs
Message-ID: <1990Dec14.130433.12910@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 14 Dec 90 13:04:33 GMT
References: <2535@trlluna.trl.oz> <1990Dec11.144800.22863@midway.uchicago.edu> <1990Dec12.185909.16488@phri.nyu.edu>
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In article <1990Dec12.185909.16488@phri.nyu.edu>, roy@phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith)
writes:
> pepke@gw.scri.fsu.edu (Eric Pepke) writes:
> > [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?

Good idea.  This would solve a problem I've been having.  Before I dive into
this, has anyone already written something like this?  If so and you're not
willing/able to share the code itself, I would be grateful for any advice you
might give or any warnings regarding potential problems in doing this.

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