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Subject: how does modal dialog disable suspend/resume/activate events?
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Date: 26 Jun 91 19:32:39 GMT
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how does the dialog manager disable suspend, resume, and activate
events while doing a modal dialog?

i need to have a dialog that looks like a file dialog but is not.  i
am using the list manager to handle the list elements, scrolling, etc.
i started out using the dialog manager with a scary looking filter
procedure to pass off events to the list manager.  somewhere in the
middle of this i came across tn #203 which basically said, "andre,
don't do what you're doing because the dialog manager wasn't intended
for all this."  

do i rewrote everything using windows, but i want activate events to
be supressed along with suspend and resume events.  i have tried all
kinds of things but nothing works.

so, a) how does a modal dialog do it,?
    b) should i have ignored tn #203
       because noone has any trouble using the dialog manager to do
       bizarre tricks?

thanks.

								-andre.

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