At 08.21 1998.05.06, Richard Christensen wrote: >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? Sure, you can. Use Mac::TextEdit. This is not covered in the book (the module is brand-new), but there is an example in :ext:Mac:TextEdit:t (in MacPerl 5.2.0r4). It might do what you want. -- Chris Nandor mailto:pudge@pobox.com http://pudge.net/ MacPerl: Power and Ease (ISBN 1881957322), http://www.ptf.com/macperl/ %PGPKey = ('B76E72AD', [1024, '0824090B CE73CA10 1FF77F13 8180B6B6']) ***** Want to unsubscribe from this list? ***** Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to mac-perl-request@iis.ee.ethz.ch