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From: mcdonald@fornax.UUCP (Ken Mcdonald)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Yet Another Question  (how to draw gray text)
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Date: 8 Mar 90 07:27:14 GMT
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Organization: School of Computing Science, SFU, Burnaby, B.C. Canada
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Just the most recent in a long line of stupid questions . . .

I'm trying to use TextBox() to draw "grayed out" text, by first
making a call to PenPat(gray).  Since the text is still black, I
surmise TE doesn't bother looking at the GrafPort's pen to determine
is drawing characteristics.  Question--is there and easy way to
draw gray text within a box?  (I imagine DrawString would do the
graying, but IM says it doesn't bound to a rect.)

Thanks,
Ken McDonald
{mcdonald@cs.sfu.ca}
PS.  Thanks to all the people out there in netland who have given me
answers, often very valuable indeed, to various previous questions.  I
don't have time to reply personally, but you know who you are.