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From: tim@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Maroney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: SFgetFile (or whatever) suggestion
Message-ID: <2686@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: Sat, 8-Aug-87 19:01:27 EDT
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Posted: Sat Aug  8 19:01:27 1987
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It seems that a programmer could readily add a way to search from SFGetFile
by simply adding a "Find" button to the dialog, using the usual easy
SFGetFile hacking techniques, and then calling OpenDeskAcc on Apple's "Find
File" desk accessory.  It's not too hard (in fact, it's almost trivial) to
make a modeless desk accessory act like a modal one; just wait until the
frontmost window is no longer a DA window (using the window class field).  I
did this for a twenty-line "Login Intermail" program.  Then, after the DA
completes, tell standard file to redraw - since Find File has reset the
low-memory globals for where standard file last was, this ought to be
sufficient.

Of course, this has to be done on an application by application basis -
Findswell is an INIT that plays some funky games with the standard file
package so the Find button is always there, reagrdless.  This is a better
solution in some ways.
-- 
Tim Maroney, {ihnp4,sun,well,ptsfa,lll-crg,frog}!hoptoad!tim (uucp)
hoptoad!tim@lll-crg (arpa)