Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!rochester!cornell!batcomputer!pyramid!voder!apple!han
From: han@apple.UUCP (Byron Han)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: IsDialogEvent and dialog fonts
Message-ID: <7038@apple.UUCP>
Date: 17 Dec 87 19:38:05 GMT
References: <691@lsrhs.UUCP>
Reply-To: han@apple.UUCP (Byron Han)
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, USA
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In article <691@lsrhs.UUCP> schmidt@lsrhs.UUCP (Chris Schmidt) writes:
>Maybe others have sung this song of woe before, but I've not heard it.
>
>Here's the problem:  I'm developing away here and I need to use more
>than one font in the editable text fields in my modeless dialog box.
>
>Is this *truly* an example of apple working so hard for me that I have to
>start from scratch in order to get around them?  Hasn't *somebody* come up
>with a neat hack to solve this problem.
>
> Double sigh . . .

Well, try using a UserItem and a modal dialog filter proc to handle events.
You will need to manually handle tabbing between the fields.  

Hope this helps somewhat.  

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Byron Han, Communications Tool                              Apple Computer, Inc.
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