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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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dmmg1176@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (David M Marcovitz) writes:
>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.

I believe I understand the problem.  It is definitely with the Dialog
Box Class Library I was trying to use.  This library just uses the
dialog template created with ResEdit to get the initial items for the
dialog box.  It does not use the dialog manager to manipulate the
dialog.  Thus, when I use dialog manager functions (like GetDItem and
GetIText) I get information about the original template, not the
dialog box that is actually appearing on my screen.  I should be able
to use TextEdit routines (like TEGetText) to manipulate the TextEdit
items.  Or, I should be able to find methods in the library to do the
same thing.

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