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From: hawley@adobe.COM (Steve Hawley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Icons in popup menus (like Std. File dialog)?
Keywords: icons, popup menus
Message-ID: <11707@adobe.UUCP>
Date: 27 Feb 91 17:01:31 GMT
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Reply-To: hawley@adobe.UUCP (Steve Hawley)
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In article <62972@bbn.BBN.COM> rmitchel@bbn.com (Rob Mitchell) writes:
|	[1] How does the "mini" icon get inserted into the popup menu
|	    in the standard file dialog window?  You know, the one 
|	    that looks like folder/files/appls/etc.  I'd like to 
|	    insert an icon in my popup menu.  Where do I get the 
|	    "mini" icon?  From some "ICN#" rsrc?  Do I append it to
|	    menu item just before drawing (kinda like check marks)?

Can't answer this exactly, but you get the small icon from the SICN
resources in the system file (or your own file or wherever).  To get them
in a pop-up menu is something I've never tried.  I image you'd have to
write your own MDEF to handle that...

|	[2] I need to create a one-column, many-row list (using
|	    List Mgr) but would like to have vertical lines to 
|	    "act" as column seperators.  I know it sounds a little
|	    strange, but ...  Basically, each row displays a few
|	    fields of a data structure and the user can double-click
|	    on a row (the whole row needs to highlight) to bring
|	    up dialog box to change entry's values.

This isn't too hard.  What you have to do is write an LDEF (a list definition
function) for use in your application.  Inside Macintosh Volume IV is pretty
clear about how this is done.  I wrote one in a day that interpretted
embedded text formatting codes to dynamically change text styles within the
text of a cell.

You may wish to reconsider popping up a dialog box *every* time a user
double clicks on a cell.  If the dialog box presents no more information
than is present in the list itself, all the time spent waiting for the
dialog box to pop up and redraw and for the window to refresh when the
dialog goes away will add up.  Consider instead adding some Text Edit
fields that get filled in when the user double clicks on a cell and will
be used to replace the currently selected cell upon pressing a button (or
a key equivalent).  Another approach would be to pop up the Text Edit fields
OVER the each field of the selected Cell itself (disable the list first),
then make it go away upon confirm or cancel commands (again via buttons and
key equivalents).

Steve Hawley
hawley@adobe.com
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