Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!ihnp4!poseidon!ech
From: ech@poseidon.UUCP (Edward C Horvath)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Changing complicated Dialogs into Windows (TechNote 203)
Message-ID: <524@poseidon.UUCP>
Date: 3 Oct 88 21:19:53 GMT
References: <4209@polya.Stanford.EDU>
Organization: AT&T Information Systems, Lincroft, NJ
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From article <4209@polya.Stanford.EDU>, by rothberg@polya.Stanford.EDU (Edward Rothberg):
> I've just finished reading what TechNote 203, "Managerial Abuse" has to
> say about the Dialog Manager...As it is right now, I find it extremely
> cumbersome to put just a few controls in a window...

Try a different tack: design your window using the DLOG/DITL tools to get
the "look" you want, then manually copy the item coordinates into an RMaker
script that you compile for use by LSC.

You're right, the MPW rez/derez tools make this a far easier task (derez
will dump the DITL, which can then be easily massaged into a set of
Control descriptions, and compiled with rez).

But there is nothing mysterious about the way the Dialog Manager 
interprets DITLs: the resource format is documented in Inside Mac.
Consider painting windows by reading a DITL and interpreting it yourself.

=Ned Horvath=