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Subject: Re: How do you inactivate statText and editText items in a modeless dialog box?
Message-ID: <943@apple.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 5-Jun-87 19:26:51 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun  5 19:26:51 1987
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References: <1271@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> <935@apple.UUCP>
Reply-To: lsr@apple.UUCP (Larry Rosenstein)
Organization: Advanced Technology Group, Apple Computer
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Keywords: modeless dialog

In article <935@apple.UUCP> han@apple.UUCP (Byron Han) writes:
>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
>
>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.

More specifically, you can get grayed text by painting over the text with a
gray pattern in patBic (pattern bit clear) mode.  This is what the Menu
Manager uses to gray out a menu item.

You should be able to define a userItem on top of your text item, which
simply draws a gray rectangle (if necessary).  That way you can use the
Dialog Manager for the text editing, but gray out the text when necessary.

(I haven't tried this out, so you may have to experiment with the ordering
of the dialog items so that the gray rectangle is drawn after the text.)

-- 
Larry Rosenstein

Object Specialist
Apple Computer

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