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Subject: Re: How do you inactivate statText and editText items in a modeless dialog box?
Message-ID: <935@apple.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 5-Jun-87 12:57:35 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun  5 12:57:35 1987
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References: <1271@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
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Keywords: modeless dialog

In article <1271@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>, steig@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Mark J. Steiglitz) writes:
> 
> I want some statText and editText items disabled (so that DialogSelect
> doesn't return true) and inactivated (so that the text is dimmed, the
> editText cannot be edited, and mouse clicks in the item are interpreted the
> same as mouse clicks in the blank part of the dialog box) in a modeless dialog
> box.
> 
> I have been able to get the items disabled using ResEdit, but I have not
> been able to inactivate them.  I have been using HiliteControl to inactivate
> chkCtrl and radCtrl items.  Is there an equivalent procedure for statText
> and editText items?

Controls can be deactivate.  Text cannot.  You may want to go and use
a UserItem for the StatText and EditText items (and allocate your own 
TEHandle for the EditText items) that way you get more control over
fonts and sizes and styles.


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