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From: cc100aa@prism.gatech.EDU (Ray Spalding)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Modeless editText doesn't deactivate on suspend event
Message-ID: <4448@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Date: 19 Dec 89 19:47:42 GMT
Reply-To: cc100aa@prism.gatech.EDU (Ray Spalding)
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
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I have written an application that has a modeless dialog window and is
multifinder friendly, i.e., has (in terms of MPW Rez):
	resource 'SIZE' (-1) {
		dontSaveScreen,
		acceptSuspendResumeEvents,
		disableOptionSwitch,
		canBackground,
		multiFinderAware,
		200 * 1024,
		140 * 1024
	};

The problem is that when I click in another application's window to
bring it to the front, the editText item in my modeless dialog window
doesn't get deactivated (that is, the selection remains highlighted or
the insertion point continues to blink).  (This problem doesn't occur
when switching between windows all belonging to this application itself).

It looks like DialogSelect is not multifinder friendly; shouldn't it
TEDeactivate the editText item when it gets a suspend event?

System is at level 6.0.4.
-- 
Ray Spalding, Office of Computing Services
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332-0275
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