Re: [MacPerl-Toolbox] Disabling (not Hiding) items in dialog boxes?

[John W Baxter <jwblist@olympus.net>]

At 9:01 -0400 5/20/99, Chris Nandor wrote:
>At 7.51 -0400 1999.05.20, Alan Fry wrote:
>>As far as I know you cannot do this. It is tempting to think that it might
>>be possible to change the current 'RGBForeColor()' to a gray and then
>>re-set the button text. However the machine will crash if you use
>>'SetDialogItemText()'. 'GetDialogItemText()' is alo broken, returning
>>garbage prepended to the string.
>
>How would you do it in C?  Is there a function missing from MacPerl's
>modules that could be added in?

There is a half page (or a bit more) near the beginning of the Dialog
Manager part of Inside Mac which boils down to:
    If what you want to do in a dialog is hard,
    do the job with a window instead.

However, I don't remember simply disabling a control (drawing it gray and
making it ignore clicks) as being "hard".  It's been a long time, though.

   --John
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John Baxter   jwblist@olympus.net      Port Ludlow, WA, USA

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