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From: barry@world.std.com (Barry L Wolman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Hiliteing Text Items in Dialogs
Summary: How does one hilite a text item in a dialog?
Keywords: dialog grey hilite
Message-ID: <1991May24.040412.6929@world.std.com>
Date: 24 May 91 04:04:12 GMT
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
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I've got a dialog box that contains several static and edit text fields that
I'd like to "grey out" or show normally depending on what user selects from a
set of radio buttons.  Is there a simple equivalent to HiliteControl that can
be used with text fields? If it would be easier, I'd be willing to make the
text fields visible or invisible.
 
Would it be "cheating" to arrange for these fields to have the last N item
numbers and include or omit them from the DITL by setting the item count in
the first two bytes of the DITL resource?  If this approach works, is it
possible to patch the DITL while the dialog is active?
 
Any tips, suggestions, code fragments, etc. will be greatly appreciated.
 
Thanks, Barry Wolman

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