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From: mikem@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Mike Morton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Highlight "OK" buttons
Keywords: Dialogs
Message-ID: <2352@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu>
Date: 7 Sep 88 18:58:06 GMT
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Reply-To: mikem@uhccux.UUCP (Mike Morton)
Organization: University of Hawaii
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In article <3316@homxc.UUCP> paco@homxc.UUCP (Herbert Throckmorton) writes:
>Default buttons in alerts get highlighted automatically.  IM vol.1
>mentions in the "Dialog Manager" section that one can highlight the
>default button in a dialog as well, but IM vol.1 doesn't mention how
>to do that deed, as far as I can tell.  One way would be to define 
>the default button as a user item and write a routine to highlight 
>it, like in the example in that same IM section.  Is there a better
>way, some flag or routine not mentioned in IM?

The code to draw the outline is on page I-407.  The simplest way to show
the outline is to draw it once when you first draw the dialog.  A user
item is more correct, in case the dialog needs to get redrawn (a sub-
dialog or FKEY can cover it).  But the Finder's alerts do it wrong, so
I've never felt compelled to do it right...

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