Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ndsuvax!nopuklic
From: nopuklic@ndsuvax.UUCP (Blayne Puklich)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Highlight "OK" buttons
Keywords: Dialogs
Message-ID: <1240@ndsuvax.UUCP>
Date: 10 Sep 88 02:07:23 GMT
References: <3316@homxc.UUCP>
Reply-To: nopuklic@ndsuvax.UUCP (Blayne Puklich)
Organization: North Dakota State University  Fargo, ND
Lines: 41

In article <3316@homxc.UUCP> paco@homxc.UUCP (Herbert Throckmorton) writes:
>Here's a riddle:
>
>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?
>
>thanks -
>
>        John Scoggins
>        att!homxc!paco

John:
	There really is no other way to do this except for what IM I-407
says near the top of the page.
	Another way to do this is get the Box for the dialog item
number 1 in the dialog's list, do the three calls as shown, and let it
fly.  Remember, though, that if you draw something over the RoundRect
around the button, you'll need to redraw the RoundRect.  The best way
to do this would be to have a filter for the whole process of drawing the
RoundRect around item 1.  The filter would only act upon update events
passed to it by ModalDialog for theDialog.  This probably sounds like
too much work, but try it out and it should work.
	Oh, before I forget, if you do use a filter for theDialog, you
have to intercept keyboard hits for Enter and Return if you want ModalDialog
to return to the caller when they are pressed.  That's more like what the
user guidelines say you should do.

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