Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!agate!ucbvax!ucsd!mvb.saic.com!ncr-sd!ncrcae!opusc!jwwalker From: jwwalker@opusc.csd.scarolina.edu (Jim Walker) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: Wider SFDialogs via ResEdit instead of Open-wide Message-ID: <1991Mar18.012513.18496@opusc.csd.scarolina.edu> Date: 18 Mar 91 01:25:13 GMT References: Distribution: comp Organization: Univ. of S. Carolina, Department of Mathematics Lines: 34 In article yee@osf.org (Michael K. Yee) writes: > In the Open-wide init (makes the Open file dialogs wider), it said > that you can make the dialogs larger by ResEditing the DTIL and DLOG > resources in the System folder. Does anyone know how to do this? > Also, does the dialog still center correctly after making the > changes via ResEdit, or is using the Open-wide init the only way to > get it to center and open-wide? --- stuff deleted --- >-- >= Michael K. Yee -- yee@osf.org or uunet!osf.org!yee -- That's the System FILE, not the System Folder. Basically you just open the System with ResEdit (preferably version 2.1), edit the DLOG resources with IDs -3999 and -4000, and start dragging things around. Note that like Open-wide 1.3, this will only affect applications that do not contain their own dialog resources. Of course you could edit those resources too, but it could get laborious. Whether the dialog will be centered depends on the application. When the application calls Standard File, it supplies the desired position for the upper left corner of the dialog. Some applications may calculate that corner by looking at the dialog rectangle and the screen rectangle, some may assume that the dialog rectangle is the standard size. In System 7, there is a way to use ResEdit to make a dialog "self-centering"... or is is just an alert? I haven't used System 7... By the way, I'm working on a new version of Open-wide, which works on all Standard File dialogs, not just the ones in the System file. This time I'm having some people beta-test it for me, so (with luck) fewer people will have problems with it. -- -- Jim Walker 76367.2271@compuserve.com walker@math.scarolina.edu