Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!hsdndev!think.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!doug.cae.wisc.edu!jverdega
From: jverdega@engr.wisc.edu (Jeffrey Verdegan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Weird alert behavior
Keywords: What the?!?
Message-ID: <1991Jun19.104836.23120@doug.cae.wisc.edu>
Date: 19 Jun 91 15:48:36 GMT
References: <1991Jun19.094234.22837@doug.cae.wisc.edu>
Distribution: usa
Organization: Computer-Aided Engineering, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison
Lines: 27

An update on the problem.  It only happens the first time through the function.

someFunction()
{
	ParamText("\pStuff", "\p", "\p", "\p");
	Alert(BLANK_ALERT, NULL);
	/* Do some other stuff */
        ParamText("\pStuff", "\p", "\p", "\p");
        Alert(BLANK_ALERT, NULL);
	/* Do som more other stuff. */
	/* GetNewDialog, etc. */
	ModalDialog();
	DisposDialog();
}

The first time I call the function, all the alerts and the dialog draw window
frames and button outlines, but don't fill in other stuff.  On the second and
subsequent calls to someFunction, all the alerts and the dialog work fine. 
This seems to be independent of what other program options the user chooses 
before selecting the one that calls someFunction.

I'm stumped. :-|

Jeff Verdegan
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Computer-Aided Engineering Center
jverdega@cae.wisc.edu