hpoppe@bierstadt.ucar.edu (Herb Poppe) (03/22/89)
Last night I was working on a HyperCard stack that requires HC 1.2 or
later. I wanted to use "answer" to put up a dialog box if the version
being used was earlier. But I couldn't fit my message on the single
line available. After futzing around with abbreviations and bad grammar
the light finally went on. Since this was a dialog box, there would be
a good chance that there was a resource template for it in HC's resource
fork. If it existed, I could modify it for a multi-line TextEdit box.
I got out ResEdit 1.2b3 and went browsing though HC's DLOG resources and
sure enough, there it was: DLOG/DITL 2101 "Answer" ("Ask" is 2100).
At first I thought of modifying it right there, but then no one else
using my stack would see more than one line. So I copied the DLOG and DITL
to the resource fork of my stack and modifed them there. I added 18 to the
bottom of the window and TextEdit rects, and 18 to the top and bottom
of the three button rects. This gave me a 2-line TextEdit box in the "Answer"
dialog, just what I needed. The same technique could be applied to the
"Ask" dialog.
Thanks, Bill, for not hard-codeing those DLOGs into HC.
Herb Poppe NCAR INTERNET: hpoppe@ncar.ucar.edu
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Boulder, CO 80307 UUCP: hpoppe@ncar.UUCPenglandr@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Scott Englander) (03/22/89)
By the way, a shareware XFCN (or XCMD?) called ShowDialog will do
practically anything you want with dialog boxes, and a thousand times
more. Comes with excellent demos.
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- Scott