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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!olivea!apple!applelink.apple.com
  2. From: LENOIL@CATALOGIC.COM
  3. Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.oop.macapp3
  4. Subject: Re: TEditText P.S.
  5. Message-ID: <75969@app|e.apple.COM>
  6. Date: 28 Dec 92 11:31:00 GMT
  7. Sender: daemon@Apple.COM
  8. Organization: AppleLink Gateway
  9. Lines: 16
  10.  
  11. From: lenoil@catalogic.com (Robert Lenoil)
  12. References: , <725492220.0782951@AppleLink.Apple.COM>
  13. Organization: Catalogic, Mountain View, California [Voice:
  14.     415-961-4649]
  15. Sender: macapp.admin@applelink.apple.com
  16. To: MacApp3Tech$@Applelink.app|e.com
  17.  
  18. >By the way, despite the occasional inquiry here, I've never seen an
  19. >explanation of the point of all this floating TEView business in the first
  20. >place
  21.  
  22. Pre-3.0, TEditText could only be used with TDialogView, which was essentially
  23. an objectized version of the toolbox Dialog Manager. So the short answer to
  24. your question is "because that's how the dialog manager did it." As to why
  25. the *dialog manager* used a floating TextEdit record, I suspect the 64k RAM
  26. of the original Macintosh had everything to do with it.
  27.