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From: stevec@Apple.COM (Steve Christensen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Dialog problems in DA
Message-ID: <47726@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 3 Jan 91 23:57:04 GMT
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kenk@tellabs.com (Ken Konecki) writes:
>stevec@Apple.COM (Steve Christensen) writes:
>>I guess my first question would be "why aren't you just using a dialog
>>template (DLOG) as well as the item list (DITL)?".  You can then just
>>call GetNewDialog() which will return a non-nil pointer if everything
>>is setup OK.  I don't know exactly why your way is failing, but this
>>seems a whole lot simpler...
>
>I was wondering when someone was going to ask me this. I was having
>trouble with Font/DA mover renumbering the DITL resource. Consequently,
>when I would call GetNewDialog(), the DITL resource number within the DLOG
>template would be wrong. Is it possible to make the DITL resource owned by
>the DLOG resource and have Font/DA mover put it in the system file
>correctly?

Use an owned resource ID for both the DLOG and DITL.  For example, if your
DA has an ID of 20, you should use an ID of (-15744 + offset), where, I
believe, offset is in the range of something like 0 to 15, and -15744 is the
base resource ID.  Then Font/DA Mover should renumber everything correctly,
and all your DA has to do is dynamically calculate the base resource ID from
its new ID and add on the appropriate offset...

steve

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