jeffn@nuchat.UUCP (Jeff Noxon) (10/22/90)
I've finished writing my epic CDev and I would like to put the documentation in the help window using TextEdit. I've seen other CDevs do this (BatteryBrain comes to mind) but not without problems. I've read IIGS #58 and I am still without a solution. BatteryBrain goes about this the wrong way, and as a result it has problems. I won't go into it here since it is clearly explained in the technote. For my purposes I only need TE active while the help dialog is being displayed. It's easy to start it up when the dialog is created, but is there any way to know when the dialog is gone so the tool can be shut back down? Jeff -- Jeff Noxon | Stop complaining and do something about jeffn@nuchat.sccsi.com | it. Really! 713/721-6820 (CDT) Houston, TX |
JWANKERL@UTCVM.BITNET ("Josef W. Wankerl") (10/22/90)
On Sun, 21 Oct 90 20:41:54 GMT <info-apple-request@APPLE.COM> said: >I've finished writing my epic CDev and I would like to put the documentation >in the help window using TextEdit. I've seen other CDevs do this >(BatteryBrain comes to mind) but not without problems. I've read IIGS #58 >and I am still without a solution. > >BatteryBrain goes about this the wrong way, and as a result it has problems. >I won't go into it here since it is clearly explained in the technote. > >For my purposes I only need TE active while the help dialog is being >displayed. It's easy to start it up when the dialog is created, but is there >any way to know when the dialog is gone so the tool can be shut back down? As far as I know, the only way to put a TE control in the help window of a CDev is to do it the way it is done with Battery Brain and Prefixer. It poses absolutely no problem unless another NDA is opened that uses TE and then the NDA Control panel is closed or another CDev is selected which shuts off TE. This is a problem with *all* NDAs and CDevs. If anyone has a better solution, then I would certainly like to know about it. Hopefully Apple is still working on the problem. I have already offered my suggestions to DTS... perhaps you should think up a solution and let them know how you would do it as well. >-- >Jeff Noxon | Stop complaining and do something about >jeffn@nuchat.sccsi.com | it. Really! >713/721-6820 (CDT) Houston, TX | -- ===> Josef W. Wankerl, college student | "I am a Viking" -Y. Malmsteen ProLine: jwankerl@pro-gsplus | BITNET: JWANKERL@UTCVM InterNet: jwankerl@pro-gsplus.cts.com | UUCP: ...crash!pro-gsplus!jwankerl ARPA/DDN: ...crash!pro-gsplus!jwankerl@nosc.mil | I'm employed by EGO, GS+!