volaski@acsu.buffalo.edu (12/13/89)
First I would like to thank everyone for their response to my question regarding animating picts. I tried making a PICT from overlapping objects using Superpaint, and it works just fine. Talk about obvious. Now I have a new question. I am writing a DA in THINK Pascal under DA shell, and I usually get what I want to work there. Once I build the DA and run it under DA Handler (from SuitCase II), the results aren't always the same. One problem I can't seem to fix is displaying a dialog window. If I do GetNewDialog, the dialog appears when I run under DA Shell and works fine, but under as a real DA, my DA window goes inactive, and the system acts as if a DA is there (probably the result of ModalDialog), but no dialog appears on the screen. I know the a window needs to be prepared, so to speak, by assigning dCtlWindow etc., but what about a modal dialog? ( Note, the dialog appears only from a control call, not an open call.) I have tried showWindow and BringToFront to no avail. What am I doing wrong? Maurice Volaski University at Buffalo Dept. of Physiology