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From: dmmg1176@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (David M Marcovitz)
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Subject: Re: Get Text from a Dialog
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Date: 11 Feb 91 21:22:21 GMT
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dmmg1176@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (David M Marcovitz) writes:
>As I said I am no longer getting the bus error, but I still can't get
>the text.  GetDItem works fine and gives me a pointer to the editText
>item.  I can then use GetIText, but the text that it returns is the
>empty string.  I can also use SetIText; if I follow that with a
>GetIText, I can retrieve the text I just set it with.  However, I
>cannot get the text that I type into the editText item in the dialog
>box.  How can I do that?

>By the way, I can use GetIText to successfully retrieve the Text in a
>staticText item, just not the text typed into an editText item.

Well, I've gotten lots of code samples from people, and none of them
solve my problem.  I went into ResEdit and set the default text of the
editText item.  Now, no matter what I type in the editText item,
GetIText returns that default string.

The problem must be with the way I am interacting with Dialog Box
Class Library that I got off the net.  I am going to scrap that and
write the code myself (with a lot of help from the Mac Programming
Primer) to deal with the dialog.

Thanks to those who sent me responses.  I'm sure I'll use them when I
rewrite my code.

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