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From: dubois@uwmacc.UUCP (Paul DuBois)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Resourceless alert/item lists
Message-ID: <290@uwmacc.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 25-Sep-86 16:11:16 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 25 16:11:16 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 26-Sep-86 01:10:15 EDT
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Organization: Brain-Dead Software
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I just posted to mod.sources.mac some source for doing an alert
without resources.  It displays any message and can be configured
to 1, 2 or 3 buttons, thus is suitable for OK, Yes/No, Yes/No/Cancel,
etc. types of alerts.  The default button (the one with the bold
outline around it) may be specified.

It works by creating the window with NewDialog and by constructing
the item list itself.

What's it good for?  One thing is that libraries using alerts
can be distributed by source or object code only, so they can be
made real plug-ins.  Nothing need be hacked into the resource fork
of anything using them.
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