Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!ads.com!potomac.ads.com!jtn
From: jtn@potomac.ads.com (John T. Nelson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Getting resource template ID from Control Handle
Message-ID: <1991Jun25.150157.910@potomac.ads.com>
Date: 25 Jun 91 15:01:57 GMT
Organization: Advanced Decision Systems, Arlington, VA
Lines: 26


Okay, here's another little wierd problem I haven't been able to
figure out.  I have some buttons on a Dialog.  The user is clicking on
various items in the Dialog but since I use a mixture of controls and
text in the dialog I need to use FindControl to figure out who got
clicked on and how they should be serviced.

Well... FindControl returns a control handle and not a dialog item
number (the resource template number).  Now I can look at the part
code returned by FindControl to figure out whether or not the control
is a button or not (inButton) but since there is more than one button
in the Dialog I have no way of figuring out WHICH f___ing button was
clicked on because all Find Control will tell me is what the handle of
the control is.  There doesn't seem to be a way to convert from a
Handle to the item number.

Surely there is an easy way to do this.  It's such an obvious problem
that someone must have solved it by now.

Thanks in advance!


---
John T. Nelson			Internet: jtn@potomac.ads.com
Advanced Decision Systems	Uucp: kzin!speaker@mimsy.umd.edu
Arlington, VA (703) 243-1611