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Mac Forum / Programming / Mac Programming / January 2006How to mimic modal default/cancel in modeless dialog
[noob alert!, this is mpw 3.6.7, os/9.1] I create a dialog, populate items and present using ModalDialog() but that's too restrictive. Instead, I just ShowWindow() and process events after IsDialogEvent() tells me so. What I want to do is to mimic the button hi-lite you get when you press Command-. or Enter/Return where the buttons [for dialog items items 2 and 1 respectively] are pressed. Maybe I'm going about this wrong, but I want to mimic the visual display of a modal window, but process modeless. Any help appreciated, thanks.  Signature/los "I was a teenage net-random" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Opinions expressed here are mine and not necessarily those of my employer! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > [noob alert!, this is mpw 3.6.7, os/9.1] > [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > Any help appreciated, thanks. I suppose you're writing straight Classic, not to CarbonLib? CarbonLib has methods to set the default button of a window, and the standard event handler will take care of the rest. In the case of straight Classic, try to get hold of Inside Macintosh: Toolbox Essentials. It mentions that and more. IIRC you're supposed to handle the keyboard events directly, by yourself. To highlight the button, one used to use HiliteControl(), Delay() for 4 ticks and then unhighlight it again. HTH, -- Uli Kusterer http://www.zathras.de yes that helped a BUNCH! Thanks; sort of related, can't I create dialog controls, such as a slider or pop-up [for a choice list] in ResEdit, or must I use [and learn] Rez language? Thanks in advance. >>[noob alert!, this is mpw 3.6.7, os/9.1] >> [quoted text clipped - 24 lines] > -- Uli Kusterer > http://www.zathras.de Signature/los "I was a teenage net-random" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Opinions expressed here are mine and not necessarily those of my employer! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > yes that helped a BUNCH! Thanks; sort of related, can't I create dialog > controls, such as a slider or pop-up [for a choice list] in ResEdit, or > must I use [and learn] Rez language? Thanks in advance. You can do this in ResEdit, but it's a deep, dark secret.... I'm trying to remember when the slider CDEF got added to the system - should be fairly early (around 7?), which is when popup menu controls also became available. See if you can find Mac Programming primer vol 2 or similar. Essentially, you have to know the system control ID for what you want and create a CNTL resource corresponding to it, then add that CNTL into your DITL/DLOG. (At least, that's how I remember doing it - it's been a long while!) The relevant id numbers should be together with the #define's in the Controls header file. > > yes that helped a BUNCH! Thanks; sort of related, can't I create dialog > > controls, such as a slider or pop-up [for a choice list] in ResEdit, or [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > also became available. See if you can find Mac Programming primer vol 2 > or similar. No, System 7 only added the popup. Slider arrived with Appearance, i.e. sometime around System 8, along with a lot of other stuff you wouldn't want to miss. > Essentially, you have to know the system control ID for what you want > and create a CNTL resource corresponding to it, then add that CNTL > into your DITL/DLOG. (At least, that's how I remember doing it - it's > been a long while!) The relevant id numbers should be together with > the #define's in the Controls header file. Just one annoying thing about CNTLs: You have to specify the rect for the control in the CNTL as numbers, you can't resize it in ResEdit's DITL editor. The commercial resource editor Resorcerer would take care of that for you, I think. HTH, -- Uli http://www.zathras.de |
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