andre@elvis.cs.pitt.edu (05/22/91)
after doing some playing, it would seem that ditl item #1 is not only considered the default item, but the dialog manager automatically draws the outer box around it. in the mac programming primer vol 2, the dialog filter example (p. 107) draws the outer box around the ok button itself (using the same three lines of code specified in inside macintosh vol 1. since the dialog manager will automatically draw this box, does it make sense to draw it by hand? is the only way to avoid having the box automatically drawn to not have an item #1? thanks. -andre. Andre Srinivasan :"If you ain't bleeding, you ain't working." 317 MIB : - Pete The Master Tombstone Cutter U. of Pittsburgh :"If it bleeds, we can kill it." andre@cs.pitt.edu : - Arnold Schwarzenager
CXT105@psuvm.psu.edu (Christopher Tate) (05/22/91)
In article <10533@pitt.UUCP>, andre@elvis.cs.pitt.edu says: >after doing some playing, it would seem that ditl item #1 is not only >considered the default item, but the dialog manager automatically >draws the outer box around it. Ummm.... The Dialog Manager only draws the bold outline for *alerts*, not for all dialogs. If you want to put bold outlines around the default buttons in your own dialogs (DLOG's), you'll have to use one of a couple of different methods -- but you definitely have to go out of your way to get the bold outline. If you are using alerts, you will indeed always have the default button outlined automagically. If you don't want this to happen, you'll have to use ordinary dialogs instead. ------- Christopher Tate | | Mathematics is skill in the use cxt105@psuvm.psu.edu | of very small words. {...}!psuvax1!psuvm.bitnet!cxt105 | cxt105@psuvm.bitnet | -- Adrian Ocneanu
lim@iris.ucdavis.edu (Lloyd Lim) (05/22/91)
In article <10533@pitt.UUCP> andre@elvis.cs.pitt.edu () writes: >after doing some playing, it would seem that ditl item #1 is not only >considered the default item, but the dialog manager automatically >draws the outer box around it. The outline is only drawn automatically for alerts, not dialogs. For alerts, you can choose whether OK (#1) or Cancel (#2) is the default by fiddling with the ALRT resource. >in the mac programming primer vol 2, the dialog filter example (p. >107) draws the outer box around the ok button itself (using the same >three lines of code specified in inside macintosh vol 1. > >since the dialog manager will automatically draw this box, does it >make sense to draw it by hand? For dialogs, you have to draw it yourself. For alerts, it's still good to draw it yourself because the Dialog Manager only draws the outline once. If the alert requires updating for some reason (maybe another alert or a screensaver), the outline won't be redrawn unless you do it yourself. >is the only way to avoid having the box automatically drawn to not >have an item #1? Well, you can't just not have an item #1 unless you don't have any items at all. If you make item #1 an icon or something else, you'll find that the Dialog Mananger will blindly outline it anyway. If I don't want a default outline in an alert, I put item #1 offscreen (left and right > 8192). +++ Lloyd Lim Internet: lim@iris.eecs.ucdavis.edu America Online: LimUnltd Compuserve: 72647,660 US Mail: 215 Lysle Leach Hall, U.C. Davis, Davis, CA 95616