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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!olivea!apple!catalogic.com
  2. From: lenoil@catalogic.com (Robert Lenoil)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.oop.macapp3
  4. Subject: Re: TEditText P.S.
  5. Message-ID: <75969@apple.apple.COM>
  6. Date: 28 Dec 92 11:31:31 GMT
  7. References: <725492220.0782951@AppleLink.Apple.COM>
  8. Sender: lenoil@Apple.COM
  9. Organization: Catalogic, Mountain View, California [Voice: 415-961-4649]
  10. Lines: 9
  11.  
  12. >By the way, despite the occasional inquiry here, I've never seen an
  13. >explanation of the point of all this floating TEView business in the first
  14. >place
  15.  
  16. Pre-3.0, TEditText could only be used with TDialogView, which was essentially
  17. an objectized version of the toolbox Dialog Manager. So the short answer to
  18. your question is "because that's how the dialog manager did it." As to why
  19. the *dialog manager* used a floating TextEdit record, I suspect the 64k RAM
  20. of the original Macintosh had everything to do with it.
  21.