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From: clark@randvax.UUCP (John Clark)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: QUERY--CENTERED WINDOWS, MODELESS DIALOGS IN DAs
Message-ID: <2441@randvax.UUCP>
Date: 9 Mar 90 21:26:31 GMT
Organization: Rand Corp., Santa Monica, Ca.
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A C-conversant friend, learning to program the Mac by tackling a DA, asked
me to post this request--

    Looking for (Think) C source code for the following routines, to be
    implemented in a multifinder-friendly DA (Sys 7.0 notwithstanding):
					  ^^
    1. centering a window on an arbitrary screen (i.e., any size);

    2. putting up a modeless dialog box with a user item that will
       show scrollable and editable text read in from a text file.

    Any help or pointers to applicable source code greatly appreciated!
    Hints, tricks, warnings, tips, &c also welcome.

    Thanks!

(Sounds a little like Bill Steinberg's "DisplayDA" ["System Errors"], with
user editability and external file access thrown in.)

Replies of broad interest to the net, or mail me and I'll pass 'em on...

John Clark
clark@rand.org