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From: wilson@csli.STANFORD.EDU (Nathan Wilson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: How to use ParamText's
Message-ID: <8079@csli.STANFORD.EDU>
Date: 13 Mar 89 23:17:58 GMT
Sender: wilson@csli.Stanford.EDU (Nathan Wilson)
Reply-To: wilson@csli.stanford.edu (Nathan Wilson)
Organization: Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford U.
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I was working on being a good person and switching all the strings in
my code to calls to GetIndString when I came across the following
problem.  Under some conditions I would like to title a window (not a
dialog or alert) that displays a PICT resource something like

<name of resource> ID = <number of resource> in <name of file>

with the stuff in <> replaced with the appropriate info.  Now it
occurred to me that the best way to generate this string would be to
store it as a parameterized string as per alerts, that is

^0 ID = ^1 in ^2

and then use the ParamText mechanism.  However I can't find any way to
invoke the string substitution stuff used by the Dialog Manager.  I
could of course do it all myself, but to do that correctly* I would
probably have to add more globals to my program and then write and
debug the code.  This seems kind of a waste of effort given that the
ability is at least marginally there already.  Did I miss something?
Any ideas, experience or code? (prefer Pascal or C)

(* Read: I'd rather not mess directly with the DAStrings global
mentioned on IM I-421.)

	Nathan Wilson
	Teleos Research
	nathan%teleos.com@ai.sri.com