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From: beard@ux1.lbl.gov (Patrick C Beard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: ResEdit question
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Date: 17 Aug 88 19:07:39 GMT
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In article <730057@hpcilzb.HP.COM> tedj@hpcilzb.HP.COM (Ted Johnson) writes:
>
>Does anyone know what the proper way is for resizing a window in
>a ResEdit DLOG resource?  Sometimes holding down pretzel and shift
>and dragging with the mouse works, sometimes it doesn't.   :-(
>

When you bring up the miniature version of the dialog, you can click
in the lower left corner of it to resize the window, or, under the DLOG
menu, you can view the DLOG as text and specify the exact rectangle.

>When I resize the DITL that the DLOG window corresponds to,
>it always goes back to it's former size, so I *think* that you're
>supposed to resize it from the DLOG.
>

True.  The DLOG causes the DITL resource to be resized, but not vice
versa.  I hope this helps.

Patrick Beard
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
beard@ux1.lbl.gov