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From: hairston@henry.ECE.CMU.EDU (David Hairston)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: moving dialog items...
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Date: 20 Mar 91 03:21:14 GMT
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[gb2a+@andrew.cmu.edu (George J. Baxter) writes:]
[]    A question.. I've got a modeless dialog box with PICT resource items
[] on it acting like buttons.  I have one that I want to 'animate' in a
[] crude way by having it move from one position to another and back again.
[]  I thought I'd be tricky and get the item's Rect, HideDItem, then change
[] the Rect, then ShowDItem.
[] Guess what, it didn't work.  It wouldn't redraw the PICT, though the
[] Rect did in fact move.  However, upon a refresh with DialogSelect(),
[] kaboomy.  

try MoveControl(theControl: ControlHandle; h,v: Integer);

for further details: IM-I, Chap. 10, The Control Manager & Chap. 13,
The Dialog Manager (basically there's a warning about using the dialog
manager to do control manager stuff).

  -dave-  
hairston@henry.ece.cmu.edu