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From: garth@sigi.Colorado.EDU (Garth Snyder)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Drawing Lines in Dialogs
Message-ID: <1533@sigi.Colorado.EDU>
Date: Tue, 7-Jul-87 23:04:08 EDT
Article-I.D.: sigi.1533
Posted: Tue Jul  7 23:04:08 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 10-Jul-87 07:22:37 EDT
References: <1256@apple.UUCP> <6608@dartvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: garth@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Garth Snyder)
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Lines: 29
Keywords: drawing tricks dialogs
Summary: It's easy, just use the numbering scheme!

>In article <1256@apple.UUCP>, dowdy@apple.UUCP (Tom Dowdy) writes:
>> Today I was working on a dialog that needed some standard Gray lines
>> (horizontal and vertical) to separate portions of the dialog.
>> 
>> [Tom Dowdy describes using PICT resources to do this]

In article <6608@dartvax.UUCP> merchant@dartvax.UUCP (Peter Merchant) writes:
>Recently I had to do the same thing and I came up with the same idea.  The
>problem is, it didn't work because it was in a Desk Accessory.  It seems
>that Font/DA Mover (at least the version I have...3.2, I think) added the
>PICT resource but it didn't change the reference in the dialog box.  I suppose
>I could have still done it with a bit of code to figure out what the resource
>number was and change the reference in the dialog box and then draw the dialog
>box.

There is a resource numbering convention for things like PICT's that are
owned by other resources, in this case a DITL (which in turn is owned by
a DLOG...).  I forget the exact details but I do remember using it within
the last year for exactly this purpose with no problems whatsoever.  

You must know about this already since you were able to get Font/DA-Mover
to move the PICT into your system file - it is just a question of playing
around a little bit until you find the magic formula.

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