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From: volaski@acsu.buffalo.edu (Maurice Volaski)
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Subject: Re: LSC 4.0 cdev and editText items!!
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Date: 15 Dec 90 00:44:42 GMT
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In article <1990Dec14.220133.8499@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> resnick@cogsci.uiuc.edu (Pete Resnick) writes:
>moyman@ecn.purdue.edu writes:
>
>>What's the deal with textEdit items inside the cdev dialog!!
>
>>	/* Setting the initial text in all of the editable text fields */
>>	aStr = GetString(SysStrID);
>>	GetDItem(dp,lastItem+SysTextID,&itemType,&itemHandle,&itemRect);
>>	SetIText( itemHandle, *aStr);
>
>I always do a SelIText(CPDialog, myItem+numItems, 0, 32767) on the first
>editText item in my DITL. Also, remember to do an InvalRect if you change
>the text after initialization. Other than that, it should work fine.


In addition, you should not be passing a master pointer to SetIText. It might 
move memory, including your string data. Copy it to a Str255 variable and 
pass that instead. 
 
Maurice Volaski