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From: bob@accuvax.nwu.edu (Bob Hablutzel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Alerts and Dialog Boxes in Desk Accessories
Message-ID: <10050073@accuvax.nwu.edu>
Date: 26 Jan 89 14:17:22 GMT
References: <1086@husc6.harvard.edu>
Organization: Northwestern U, Evanston IL, USA
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> IM gives the conventions for numbering resources that are owned by a desk
> accessory, and warns that your desk accessory may be renumbered.  Resource 
> ID's have to be recalculated from your DA's ID.  The FONT/DA Mover renumbers   
> your DA's resources, but it doesn't change, for instance, the DITL ID stored in
> a DLOG or ALRT resource.  Short of modifying the resources in place in the 
> resource file before calling GetNewDialog() or Alert(), is there any way to 
> get around this problem?

Read Tech Note 23. As of Font/DA Mover 3.3, DITL id numbers _for DITLs
imbedded in DLOGs or ALRTs_ will be renumbered properly. (That is, they
will be given the same number as the owner). Thus, at runtime, all you have to
do is recalculate the id numbers. 

> (I'm converting an application to a DA, and want to avoid, say, getting rid of
> all GetNewDialog() and Alert() calls.)

Gee, do you really need them? :-)

> 						--David Maymudes
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Bob Hablutzel	Wildwood Software	BOB@NUACC.ACNS.NWU.EDU