Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ndsuvax!nopuklic
From: nopuklic@ndsuvax.UUCP (Blayne Puklich)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: ResEdit question
Keywords: DLOG
Message-ID: <1180@ndsuvax.UUCP>
Date: 1 Sep 88 06:38:58 GMT
References: <730057@hpcilzb.HP.COM> <767@helios.ee.lbl.gov> <13685@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <554@utacs.UTA.FI>
Reply-To: nopuklic@ndsuvax.UUCP (Blayne Puklich)
Organization: North Dakota State University  Fargo, ND
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In article <554@utacs.UTA.FI> jmh@utacs.UUCP (Juha-Matti Heimonen) writes:
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>I am currently using version 1.2d1 and I am quite happy with it (so far!).
>There is anyway one thing that annoys me.  I *want* to define my DLOGs as
>resources but I would also like to have them well fitted to screens of
>varying sizes, e.g. in the middle or the right bottom corner of the screen.
>How can I get both of these??
>
>Juha-Matti Heimonen                jmh@utacs.UUCP

	One way to do this is to load the resource template for the DLOG
into a DialogTHndl and fiddle with the boundsRect of the DLOG BEFORE
calling GetNewDialog.  You can then move it around as you wish by
computing a coordinate based either on screenBits.bounds or, as IM vol
V says on pp 121-122, GrayRgn's rgnBBox, which will give you the Rgn
for all screens attached if you want to place it on a different screen.
You need to make the DialogTHndl unpurgeable before playing with it, also.
You can stuff the Rect you compute back into the boundsRect, and then
call GetNewDialog, which will draw it at the new location.
	One thing to keep in mind is that if the DLOG has a window
definition ID of documentProc, noGropwDocProc, or rDocProc, the title
bar is NOT included in the DLOG template's boundsRect, so you'll have
to adjust things 20 pixels accordingly.
	Oh, remember to make it purgeable again if you won't be needing
it anymore.

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