Re: [MacPerl] EditText question

[Richard Christensen <richard@crl.com>]

This all makes sense.  The only problem I have is that I wasn't using a 
Dialog box. I was using MacWindow versus a dialog box.  I really don't 
want the window to go away after the "OK" step so I thought that a normal 
window would be better.  I guess I could pop up a dialog box just for the 
entry, but I would prefer to use one window.  Is there any way to enter 
editable text into a normal window?  Or is this just not a Mac thing to do?

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Richard Christensen                                          KC7JPQ     
Austin, TX
richard@crl.com

On Wed, 6 May 1998, Alan Fry wrote:

> Richard Christansen writes Tue, 5 May 1998 03:18:31 -0700 (PDT)
> 
> >I am trying to implement an Entry field in the GUI I am building.  The
> >Dialog toolbox manual says that I should use an EditText function. I did
> >a "grep" for edittext in the MacPerl folder and didn't find anything.  Do
> >I use this feature like any other control?  I have the sneaking suspision
> >that it will error out from an unknown function.  Is there a better way
> >to do this, or do I need to write a separate function that simulates this
> >DITL functionality?
> 
> Have you looked at the examples in the MacPerl distribution in the folder
> <ext:Mac:Dialogs:t:> which gives two examples 'Modal.t' and 'Nonmodal.t'?
> Together wih the 'pod' in Dialogs.pm, they tell you just about all you need
> to know. (You replace 'kStaticTextDialogItem' by 'kEditTextDialogItem', but
> otherwise these examples show you what to do.)
> 
> And have you looked at Chris Nandor's excellent explanation in Chapter 15
> of the MacPerl book "Power and Ease" available at
> <http://www.ptf.com/macperl/> in pre-view form?
> 
> If you have some application which is beyond the scope of these references
> tell us exactly what the problem is and we'll try to help.
> 
> Alan Fry
> 

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