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From: bob@eecs.nwu.edu (Bob Hablutzel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Hiliting inactive controls (statText in dialog)
Message-ID: <10050017@eecs.nwu.edu>
Date: 17 Sep 88 22:41:26 GMT
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Organization: Northwestern U, Evanston IL, USA
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> I have some editText fields in a dialog with statText labels.
> Depending on where the information from the dialog is going
> I may want some editText fields inactive.  Thus I want to
> do something to the labels to "dim" them, like inactive labels
> of buttons. I tried GetDItem(), and then HiliteControl(), but
> that just crashed me.  Any ideas?

The reason they crashed is that the editText items are textEdit items,
not controls. There isn't a really clean way of "dimming" a text edit
item that I know of, but you might want to play with this: Inactivate
the item (using SetDItem and adding itemDisable to the item type), then
set the paint mode to srcAnd and paint the view rectangle with a grey
pattern. When the item is reactivated, grab the text edit handle (tricky,
but not impossible), and refresh it. The real problem here should be
getting the handle and refreshing - making these user items would be
something worth looking into (especially for modeless dialogs...)

Bob Hablutzel		BOB@NUACC.ACNS.NWU.EDU