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From: dweisman@umiami.ir.miami.edu (Ordinary Man)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Hiliteing Text Items in Dialogs
Message-ID: <1991May25.132654.10182@umiami.ir.miami.edu>
Date: 25 May 91 17:26:54 GMT
References: <1991May24.040412.6929@world.std.com>
Organization: Univ of Miami IR
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In article <1991May24.040412.6929@world.std.com>, barry@world.std.com (Barry L Wolman) writes:

> 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.

There are a couple of ways I can think of off-hand. Either:

1) Stick a userItem around the text to be greyed (one for each text Item). Then 
when you want to grey that item, just use a FillRect on the userItem's rect 
with penmode patBic with grey. That should "dim" the text. 

2) Use the Dialog Manager's routines Hide/Show DItem documented in IM IV I 
believe. These routines just hide the item (by moving them out of the dialog's 
visRgn).

> Thanks, Barry Wolman

You're welcome,
Dan

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