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From: dierks@ndcvb.cc.nd.edu (Timothy Dierks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: I hate it when Apple does this . . .
Message-ID: <88@ndcvb.cc.nd.edu>
Date: 11 Mar 90 18:26:12 GMT
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From article <420@fornax.UUCP>, by mcdonald@fornax.UUCP (Ken Mcdonald):
> In Inside Mac, Vol I, the chapter on the dialog manager, it is stated
> the the dialog item list (in memory) for a modal dialog contains handles
> to the text associated with it's editText items--then gives no way to 
> get a copy of these handles!  Anyone know how to do this?  (I don't 
> want to use GetIText, as I don't want to extract the text, I want the
> actual handle to the text.)

Inside Mac, page I-405, says that the handle returned by GetDItem for an
editText item is a handle to the current text.  If you just want to work with
the current item, there is a textH member in a dialog record that is a
handle to it.

Tim Dierks
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