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From: Jim.Lynch@f444.n161.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Jim Lynch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Scrolling Lists In Dialogs
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Date: 2 Jan 91 13:01:32 GMT
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> Subj: SCROLLING LISTS IN DIALOGS
> From: summer@atreides.trl.oz.au (Mark Summerfield)
> Date: 11 Dec 90 06:14:12 GMT
> Organization: Telecom Research Laboratories, Melbourne, Australia
> Message-ID: <2535@trlluna.trl.oz>
> Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
> 
> I am about to return to Mac programming for a short while
> after a year doing other things (arrgh!) to make a few mods
> to a program I wrote.  Basically the changes involve adding
> some AppleTalk networking features.  Now I've looked at what
> I need to do with the AT manager, and *that* doesn't seem
> to be a major problem, however one of the things I am going
> to need is a dinky little scrolling dialog box showing all
> the other machines on the network providing my service (like
> the ones the chooser has for selecting zones and printers).
> 
> What I want to know is: is there a standard way of easily
> implementing one of these things, or do you have to do
> everything yourself (run the control, scroll the list,
> check which item gets selected etc etc)? The standard file
> package does this for you for file selection. Is there
> something similar for AppleTalk, or for general lists of items?
> 

Yes, there is but I only know its name.  It's called the List Manager
and is described in Inside Macintosh vol. four.

> 
> Please e-mail any replies, as our inbound newsfeed is currently
> poor (bordering on non-existent).
> 

Could someone e-mail this reply to him?  I can't.  TNX in advance.

> 
> Thanks very much to anyone who can help.
> 
> Mark.
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