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From: pete@titan.rice.edu (Pete Keleher)
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Subject: Re: How to find # of items in DITL?
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> I'm working on a program which reads in a Dialog and then massages the
> elements.  How can I find the number of items in the dialog's item list?
> (Under Think C)

Your filterProc's first argument is a dialogPtr. If you cast this to a
"dialogPeek", you can reference a field called "items" (or something like
that). "Items" is a handle to the DITL list in memory, the first short word
of which is the number of items in the dialog minus one.

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Pete Keleher						pete@titan.rice.edu