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From: kaufman@polya.STANFORD.EDU (Marc T. Kaufman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: TextEdit Item in a dlog
Message-ID: <2723@polya.STANFORD.EDU>
Date: 30 Apr 88 04:08:23 GMT
References: <8006@ames.arpa>
Reply-To: kaufman@polya.stanford.edu (Marc T. Kaufman)
Organization: Stanford University
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In article <8006@ames.arpa> soe@ames.arpa (Brad Soe) writes:
>I was wondering about an item that is declared "editText" in
>a resources template. Is it just like a "TEHandle"? 

No, it is a handle to an "editText item", which, in fact, contains
the handle to the text (I believe in the first 4 bytes, but I may be wrong
on this).

>Can you Call:
>GetDItem(dialog, itemno, &type, &tehandle, &rect);
>TEIdle(tehandle);	(or any Textedit routine) 

No, for the reason stated above.  However, if the TEHandle to the CURRENTly
active text is in the textH field of the DialogRecord (i.e. in

	dialog^.textH

You can select a specific text item with SelIText(dialog, itemNo, start, end);
See IM-I-408,422

Marc Kaufman (kaufman@polya.stanford.edu)