Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!samsung!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!wuarchive!psuvax1!rutgers!netnews.upenn.edu!vax1.cc.lehigh.edu!vlsi3b15!batman!nicholaA From: nicholaA@batman.moravian.EDU (Andy Nicholas) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: Death of the Dialog Mgr? Keywords: drew, cleave, bravo, census Message-ID: <743@batman.moravian.EDU> Date: 18 Dec 89 09:09:12 GMT References: Distribution: comp Organization: Moravian College, Bethlehem, PA Lines: 21 In article , wombat@claris.com (Scott Lindsey) writes: > It seems to me that, > yes, you can duplicate anything the dialog manager does by using the window > manager, but it can be more time consuming and difficult to get to that stage. > The dialog manager is a useful tool that shouldn't be abandoned without due > cause. Yeah, but under system 5, most of the essential functions that the dialog manager provided (like easy setup and tracking and adding controls and whatnot) are handled more easily... things like allowing taskmaster to return inControl values make doing dialogs as windows *SO* much easier. I think you get more flexibility from using the window manager with extended controls, etc, and that the dialog manager is just obsolete. andy -- Andy Nicholas GEnie, AM-Online: shrinkit Box 435, Moravian College CompuServe: 70771,2615 Bethlehem, PA 18018 InterNET: shrinkit@moravian.edu