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From: wdh@well.UUCP (Bill Hofmann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Centering Alerts
Message-ID: <15078@well.UUCP>
Date: 18 Dec 89 03:44:54 GMT
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Reply-To: wdh@well.UUCP (Bill Hofmann)
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In article <22417@ut-emx.UUCP> rdd@walt.cc.utexas.edu (Robert Dorsett) writes:
>Is there an elegant (i.e., easy) way to center *alerts* on a screen?  I mean, 
>apart from writing an alert-simulator?
Sure.  Read the ALRT resource into memory and manipulate the rectangle, being
sure to make it non-purgeable, then call Alert.  The Dialog Manager just does
a GetResource, so it'll find the resource you've read into memory and use
the bounding rect you've stuffed.

There's even a data type: AlertTemplate (IM I-423).  I use this method
extensively, on DLOGs as well (especially standard file).

-Bill