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Chapter 6 - Dialog Manager

Dialog Manager Reference

This section describes the data structure, routines, and resources that are specific to the Dialog Manager.

The "Data Structure" section shows the Pascal data structure for the dialog record, which the Dialog Manager creates and maintains. The "Dialog Manager Routines" section describes Dialog Manager routines for invoking alerts, creating and disposing of dialog boxes, manipulating items in alert and dialog boxes, and handling events in dialog boxes.

The "Application-Defined Routines" section describes routines that your application must supply when you need to create application-defined items in dialog boxes, to filter events that the Dialog Manager doesn't handle, and to define its own alert sounds.

The "Resources" section describes the dialog resource, the alert resource, the item list resource, the dialog color table resource, the alert color table resource, and the item
color table resource. The summary sections that conclude this chapter include listings
of the constants that define values for the item types in alert and dialog boxes, the OK and Cancel buttons in alert boxes, and the icons in note alert boxes, caution alert boxes, and stop alert boxes, along with the constants used by the Gestalt function for the Dialog Manager.

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Subtopics

Data Structure

Dialog Manager Routines

Application-Defined Routines

Resources