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Application-Defined Routines / Modal-Dialog Filter Functions

MyModalFilter

A modal-dialog filter function whose address is passed to SFPGetFile or SFPPutFile should have the following form:

FUNCTION MyModalFilter (theDialog: DialogPtr; 
                        VAR theEvent: EventRecord; 
                        VAR itemHit: Integer): Boolean;

theDialog

A pointer to the dialog record of the dialog box.

theEvent

The event record for the event.

itemHit

The number of the item selected.

DESCRIPTION

Your modal-dialog filter function determines how the Dialog Manager procedure ModalDialog filters events. The ModalDialog procedure retrieves events by calling the Event Manager function GetNextEvent. The Standard File Package contains an internal filter function that performs some preliminary processing on each event it receives. If you provide a modal-dialog filter function, ModalDialog calls your filter function after it calls the internal Standard File Package filter function and before it sends the event to your dialog hook function.

Your modal-dialog filter function returns a Boolean value that reports whether it handled the event. If your function returns a value of FALSE, ModalDialog processes the event through its own filters. If your function returns a value of TRUE, ModalDialog returns with no further action.

SEE ALSO

See "Writing a Modal-Dialog Filter Function" on page 3-28 for a sample modal-dialog filter function.