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From: vrm@blackwater.cerc.wvu.wvnet.edu (Vasile R. Montan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Need a scrollable, editable text record in a modal dialog
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Date: 21 May 91 16:29:51 GMT
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I need a fully functional TERecord for the user to edit in the context
of a modal dialog.  (Please-- no flames about modality.  This is one
of those places where user interface issues constrain me to use a modal.
It's very much like the script situation in HyperCard-- what other
way would there be to do this but a modal?)

I can think of two ways to do this, and I'm not very happy about either
one.

1.  Use a regular editable text item, which should make the coding a bit
shorter.  For the scroll bar, I will have to rig up some way to get into
the TERec and scroll it myself.

2.  Go ahead and write the code as though this were a TERec in any
normal window, and just catch whatever events I need with the filter
function.  This is most likely the tac I will take; still, I've got
a nagging feeling that there might be some gotchas involved.

What I want to end up with is something very much like HyperCard's
script editor.  I know that HyperCard does this with a modal dialog,
because the DLOG/DITL are there for everyone to see. :-)

Any suggestions or potential gotchas?

--Kurisuto
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