Re: [MacPerl] Mac::Dialogs questions

[pudge@pobox.com (Chris Nandor)]

At 11.02 1998.02.27, Paul DuBois wrote:
>1) How can you make the cursor blink in an edit field?  I've asked this
>before recently, but I don't recall seeing an answer.  My conjecture is
>that you must call TEIdle() during the event loop, but I don't find a way
>to do that.

Just judging from my limited knowledge of Mac OS HIG (human interface
guidelines), I don't recall ever seeing a cursor blink in a standard dialog
box text field; so I don't know that it can or cannot be done, but I am not
sure that it should.


>2) If you create a dialog with MacDialog, display it, then hit command-period
>to terminate the script, the dialog box remains on screen.  Is there a
>way within a script to receive a notification that you've been aborted, so
>that some cleanup can be done?

Sure.  Use the END{} block.  Add this to Alan's GetData.pm:

  END {dispose $dlg}

That should do it.

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