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From: UD040164@NDSUVM1.BITNET (a.d. jensen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Dialogs in INITS (LSC3)
Message-ID: <1325UD040164@NDSUVM1>
Date: 6 Sep 88 04:25:00 GMT
Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computer Network, Fargo, ND
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Here is a problem which has me stumped:

I wrote an INIT in LSC3 which basically throws up a dialog box and
then messes around with it, then discards it.  Basically, I call
GetNewDialog (with NULL for the storage), use SetIText and SetCTitle
to monkey around with the dialog as needed, then call ModalDialog to
handle it, then call DisposDialog to get rid of it.  All is well, until
the DisposDialog, when I get a system bomb 2.

The trouble I have with this is that _nothing_ bad happens until I try
to do something with the window (ie: DisposDialog, MoveWindow, etc).
This seems very weird.  I called Think, and the guy I talked to just
sort of said that it couldn't be happening, and he had no idea what
was wrong.

All of my experimentation has been for nought.  No matter where I try
to do something with the window, it always crashes.  BTW, this _does_
work fine on the Mac II.  The guy at Think said something about my
dialog getting a bad address or something (which won't bomb on a II),
but why doesn't it bomb when changing text, or other things which refer
to the dialog?

My only idea is that the dialog gets a bad window, but I have no idea
of what to do to solve this, if it is the case...

Thanks for your help.

dale