Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!spool.mu.edu!news.cs.indiana.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!uxa.cso.uiuc.edu!dmmg1176 From: dmmg1176@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (David M Marcovitz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: Get Text from a Dialog Message-ID: <1991Feb10.163404.17318@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 10 Feb 91 16:34:04 GMT References: <1991Feb8.204416.390@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Sender: news@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (News) Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Lines: 12 Thanks to everyone for your help figuring out why I couldn't get the text from a dialog box. My problem was that I was using an instance of a class (my dialog box class), instead of a DialogPtr variable (declared as part of that class) in my call to GetDItem. I haven't yet gotten the text, but I am no longer getting a bus error, and I am much closer. Thanks. -- David M. Marcovitz | internet: marcovitz@uiuc.edu Computer-based Education Research Lab | dmmg1176@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu University of Illinois | novanet: marco / cca / cerl