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From: calvin@portia.stanford.edu (Peter Chang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Modeless Dialogs
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Date: 5 Apr 91 08:13:06 GMT
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Hello Netters,

	I am writing a program that needs some modeless dialogs, and
I have  few questions on how to implement them. I'm learning
how to use the Think Class Library at the same time, so some of
my ideas may seem odd.

	1.	It seems to me that a modeless dialog is just a window with
some buttons, text boxes, and other things. Because it seems
this way to me, would it be advisable to implement it by making
a window with the requisite components built in?

	2. If part 1 was answered with an affirmative, would the best
way to implement this be to override the Pane class with some 
Buttons and other objects thrown on when I need them?

	If there is a better way, a ModelessDialog procedure or 
something, that I am just missing could someone point me in
the right direction, IM 1-3 doesn't seem to have an mention of
it.

	Thanks in advance.

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