What's new in ShowDialog XCMD version 1.6 (continued):
10. Two new auxiliary XCMDs have been added to the ShowDialog group: TextDialog XCMD (you are looking at it now) and SplashDialog XCMD. CreditsDialog XCMD was included with previous versions of ShowDialog, but was undocumented.
TextDialog XCMD displays a dialog that can show up to 255 scrolling text screens, each containing up to 32K of text. You specify in the parameter list the font and point size of the text in the scrolling field. A TextDialog dialog is "semi-modal." It can have a titlebar that allows it to be dragged around the screen, but it must be dismissed before other actions can be taken.
Scrolling of the TextDialog field is under full keyboard control:
ΓÇó Pressing the Home or End keys on the extended keyboard will scroll the field either to the top or bottom.
ΓÇó Pressing the arrow up or arrow down keys will scroll the field one line at a time. Pressing these same keys with the command key held down will scroll the field an entire page.
ΓÇó Pressing the page up or page down keys will scroll the screen an entire page.
ΓÇó Pressing the arrow left or arrow right keys will cycle text screens in the same manner as pressing the Prev or Next buttons.
ΓÇó Pressing enter or return or clicking the goAway box on the titlebar cancels the dialog.
SplashDialog XCMD displays a dialog containing your graphic that dismisses itself after a specified period of time.
CreditsDialog XCMD displays a dialog containing two graphic elements. One element is swapped for the other when the dialog is first clicked.
11. The ClipToPICT X-command has been rewritten as a function (XFCN) and now allows you to insert a PICT from the clipboard not only into the current stack, but into any other stack as well. Or you can create a new file ("double-clickable" by ResEdit) to contain the PICT resource.
12. PrintDoc XCMD has been revised to provide better error handling in situations where the LaserWriter is turned off when trying to print or when the "printing" files are missing from the System Folder. It also fixes a gross bug where the XCMD would crash the machine if the printing DLOG/DITLs were missing from the stack.
13. Ants XFCN now uses an offscreen bitmap and CopyBits to eliminate screen flicker when drawing the rectangle. Ants also now flushes the event queue so that the mouseclick that draws out the rectangle isn't passed along to HyperCard.
