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From: tim@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Maroney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Another dumb question
Message-ID: <6670@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: 4 Mar 89 14:04:21 GMT
References: <2383@puff.cs.wisc.edu>
Reply-To: tim@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Maroney)
Organization: Eclectic Software, San Francisco
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In article <2383@puff.cs.wisc.edu> drew@cat46.CS.WISC.EDU (Shawn Drew) writes:
>   How come when I put up a new dialog (telling the user that calculations
>   are being performed) the dialog box never gets completely drawn?  The
>   outline is shown, but the contents are never drawn.  It's kind of a
>   waste to have an empty dialog box on the screen.

You're not going back to your main event loop after bringing up the dialog,
so the update on the dialog isn't getting done and the contents aren't being
drawn.  You can use DrawDialog to get around this problem.
-- 
Tim Maroney, Consultant, Eclectic Software, sun!hoptoad!tim
"Something was badly amiss with the spiritual life of the planet, thought
 Gibreel Farishta.  Too many demons inside people claiming to believe in
 God." -- Salman Rushdie, THE SATANIC VERSES