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From: sho@pur-phy (Sho Kuwamoto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Highlight "OK" buttons
Keywords: Dialogs
Message-ID: <1393@pur-phy>
Date: 8 Sep 88 01:48:43 GMT
References: <3316@homxc.UUCP> <2352@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu>
Reply-To: sho@newton.physics.purdue.edu.UUCP (Sho Kuwamoto)
Organization: Purdue Univ. Physics Dept., W. Lafayette, IN
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In article <2352@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> mikem@uhccux.UUCP (Mike Morton) writes:
>In article <3316@homxc.UUCP> paco@homxc.UUCP (Herbert Throckmorton) writes:
>
>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...
>
It's not *that* hard to use a userItem.  I do it.  But then again there are
a lot of other areas where I don't do exactly what Apple tells me...

-Sho