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- Item 6731338 29-May-90 07:36PDT
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- From: A.XSE010 Austria - SLT Labinstruments,IDV
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- To: MACAPP.TECH$ MacApp Technical
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- Sub: Cropped DLOG on SE
-
- Well, this is my first posting to MacApp.Tech$.
-
- I am still a novice MacApp user (and even more of a novice AppleLink user) and
- (therefore?) have several questions, which I will try to ask in small groups
- (i.e. separate messages).
-
- I am not on the MacApp.Tech$ group address (and I'm not sure yet whether or not
- I want to be), so apparently I should ask for a direct response to my own
- AppleLink address (consider this done).
-
- All my questions relate to one large program which I have been writing for more
- than a year now (my first serious Mac program and practically my first Mac
- program per se). Everything I have written is in p1 Modula-2. It has taken so
- long not only because of the well-known difficulties involved programming the
- Mac and because it is my first Mac program, but also because of radical changes
- of course late in the day. It started life being a plain non-object-oriented
- MPW program; then the entire file structure and handling was abandoned in
- favour of a Database package (“Inside Out”), and then, after further unbearably
- slow progress and months of hesitation (for fear of further delays due to the
- unpredictable length of yet another learning period) it was decided to try and
- make use of MacApp. Due to extreme time constraints it was impossible
- immediately to convert the program completely over to MacApp. So there are
- still several Dialog Manager dialog boxes in there, which leads to my first
- question (by the way, I'm using MPW 3.0 and MacApp 2.0ß9, in case you need to
- know):
-
- I have a dialog manager dialog which is as big as the screen of the SE (etc.)
- but for the menu bar and a few pixels around the edges. On the Mac II (and
- IIcx) the dialog appears complete and nicely centered on the screen (using my
- own centering procedure), but on the SE and SE/30, it is cropped at the bottom
- by about 20 or 22 pixels (but still centered according to its new size). I
- blame this on MacApp because I wrote a non-MacApp program which does nothing
- but put up this dialog (using bits of the code from the other program) and the
- whole thing appears uncropped, visible and centered on the SE's screen (as it
- should). I can't imagine how MacApp can get in and interfere, but what else
- could it be? Here is the Rez description of the box:
-
- resource 'DLOG' (132, "Screening Details") {
- {32, 10, 334, 502},
- dBoxProc,
- invisible,
- noGoAway,
- 0x0,
- 132,
- ""
- };
-
- I'll leave it at that for now: this is probably the most baffling problem I
- have.
-
-
-
- Regards and thanks,
-
- Alex Livingston
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-