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From: CAH0@bunny.gte.com (Chuck Hoffman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Dialog Box while Printing
Message-ID: <11348@bunny.GTE.COM>
Date: 11 Jun 91 12:39:19 GMT
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Organization: GTE Laboratories, Inc.
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This may sound trivial but, honest, I've worked on it every night for a 
week.  While printing, I want to put up a message like "Press 
command-period to stop printing."  Should be easy.  I tried an Alert, but 
that waited for a reply.  So did ModalDialog.  I've tried IsDialogEvent in 
my main loop, but it never returns a TRUE, even when I click the mouse in 
the dialog window.

Right now, I'm just doing a GetNewDialog, then drawing into the window 
with TextBox.  Of course, there is nothing to redraw the window if it has 
been obscured, so I lose the text after a while.  InvalRect has no effect. 
 Installing the text as a useritem, to be drawn with the already existing 
procedure for drawing useritems, has no effect.

I am treating the text as a useritem because, except when I was using
ModalDialog, static text never gets drawn in the window, though check
box control titles do.

So what's the best way to do this?  Bring up a regular text window?


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