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From: leonardr@sv.portal.com (Leonard Rosenthol)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: prompting user in SFGetFile?
Message-ID: <1991Jun4.194024.411@svc.portal.com>
Date: 4 Jun 91 19:40:24 GMT
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In article <1991Jun3.182938.4743@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>, rolf@sparc1 (Rolf Wilson) writes:
> From: rolf@sparc1 (Rolf Wilson)
> Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
> Subject: prompting user in SFGetFile?
> Date: 3 Jun 91 18:29:38 GMT
> Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
> 
> 
>   Under system 6, I was able to shoehorn a prompt into the
> SFGetFile dialog box to help the user when it might be
> unclear WHY this box had suddenly popped up. Remember how
> HyperCard would ask "Where is Home?" in that box?
>   Well, under 7.0, the space that I had used to put a
> new dialog into seems to have disappeared. What is the
> best way to provide a prompt in SFGetFile in such a way
> that it can be used under both System 6 and 7?
>
	The best way is to use SFPGetFile with your own 'prompted' Standard File dialog.  That will work under both 6 and 7 and allows you to put the prompt ANYWHERE you want...I use a centered prompt at the top of the stdFile dialog, set off by a line from the 'normal' dialog.

Leonard Rsoenthol

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