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From: bowman@reed.UUCP (Eric Bowman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Changing editText to statText in modal dialogs
Message-ID: <14401@reed.UUCP>
Date: 11 Mar 90 21:45:20 GMT
References: <419@fornax.UUCP>
Reply-To: bowman@reed.UUCP (Eric Bowman)
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Organization: Reed College, Portland OR
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In article <419@fornax.UUCP> mcdonald@fornax.UUCP (Ken Mcdonald) writes:
>But what
>do you do if the one you are working on is the only editText item?

The way I handle this is to put another editText item way out of the
dialog's visRgn.  You'll need to do some trickery in a filterproc to
make things work out ok, but when you want to disable your editText, you
just select the other, non-visible editText item first.

Hope this helps,
boBO
bowman@reed.{bitnet,UUCP,edu}