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From: peirce@outpost.UUCP (Michael Peirce)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Need a scrollable, editable text record in a modal dialog
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Date: 22 May 91 00:51:53 GMT
Reply-To: peirce@outpost.UUCP (Michael Peirce)
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In article <1782@babcock.cerc.wvu.wvnet.edu>, vrm@blackwater.cerc.wvu.wvnet.edu (Vasile R. Montan) writes:
> 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?)
>
> ...
> 
> Any suggestions or potential gotchas?

Look on the latest Developer CD (if you can).  There is a cool Text
Edit control as part of the CShell example code that provides exactly 
what you describe.

-- michael

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