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Subject: Re: Centering Alerts
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Date: 18 Dec 89 08:54:46 GMT
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From article <15078@well.UUCP>, by wdh@well.UUCP (Bill Hofmann):
> 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).

Also, be sure not to _center_ alerts, put them 1/3 of the way down
(measuring from the bottom of the menu bar to the bottom of the main
screen).  Center them left to right though, of course.

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