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From: mcdonald@fornax.UUCP (Ken Mcdonald)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Changing editText to statText in modal dialogs
Message-ID: <419@fornax.UUCP>
Date: 10 Mar 90 20:31:07 GMT
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Organization: School of Computing Science, SFU, Burnaby, B.C. Canada
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Well, as the title says I have a situation where I want to change
an editText item to a statText item.  Fine.  There was a brief
discussion of this a short time ago, and several people pointed
out that the tricky part was what to do if the editText item being
changed is the currently selected item.  I agree.  If there is more
than one editText item, the solution seems obvious--just use SelIText()
to select one of the others, before changing the current one.  But what
do you do if the one you are working on is the only editText item?  I
tried setting the editFields field of the dialog record to -1, to tell
it there were no longer any valid editText items, but nonetheless, when I
typed in a character, TE put it up there on the screen where my editable
item "used to" be.

What I'm assuming is that ModalDialog() takes incoming characters and
uses TE routines to place them in the active edit item.  So the question
is, how do I inform ModalDialog that there really is no active edit item?
Do I have to go and muck around with the TERec?  I've tried a number of
things now, to no avail.

Thanks for any help,
Ken McDonald
mcdonald@cs.sfu.ca