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From: waldman@endor.harvard.edu (benjamin Waldman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: SFGetFile prompt message
Keywords: SFGetFile prompt
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Date: 25 May 88 03:21:37 GMT
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In article <2992@imag.imag.fr> squatt@imag.imag.fr ( Le Toullec / Eq T.Muntean) writes:
>Using LSC, and wanting a 'pretty' presentation, I try to used the prompt 
>field in SFGetFile call. 
>So I write SFGetFile(SFGWhere, CtoPStr("pretty message"),...,&SFReply), but 
>nothing occurs...
>Does anybody knows where the fault is ?

If you read the description of SFGetFile in Inside Mac, you'll notice that
the prompt field is there "for historical purposes only," and is now ignored.
Why? I don'y know - I really think it would be useful at times.  You can,
however, have a prompt in SFPutFile, though.
			Ben Waldman
			waldman@endor.harvard.edu