Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bbn!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!rs4u+ From: rs4u+@andrew.cmu.edu (Richard Siegel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: RE: TextEdit Items In Dialog Message-ID: Date: 29 Apr 88 04:21:17 GMT Organization: Carnegie Mellon Lines: 8 "editText" items are items that contain editable text; they're not TEHandles, though. If you want to set up a TEHandle (with a scrollbar) in the dialog box, you need to set up a UserItem and write a custom dialog filter to handle mouse clicks and keystrokes in your TEHandle and scroll bar. While not too difficult to do, it does take some doing... R.