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Inside Macintosh: Macintosh Toolbox Essentials /

Chapter 6 - Dialog Manager / Dialog Manager Reference

Dialog Manager Routines / Handling Text in Alert and Dialog Boxes

DialogDelete
When a dialog box containing an editable text item is active, use the DialogDelete procedure to handle the Clear editing command. The DialogDelete procedure is also available as the DlgDelete procedure.
PROCEDURE DialogDelete (theDialog: DialogPtr);
theDialog
A pointer to a dialog record.

DESCRIPTION
The DialogDelete procedure checks whether the dialog box has any editable text items and, if so, applies the TextEdit procedure TEDelete to the selected text. Your application should test whether a dialog box is the frontmost window when handling mouse-down events in the Edit menu and then call this routine when appropriate.

SEE ALSO
For more information about allowing access to your menus when your application displays dialog boxes, see "Adjusting Menus for Modal Dialog Boxes" beginning on page 6-68 and "Adjusting Menus for Movable Modal and Modeless Dialog Boxes" on page 6-73. The TEDelete procedure is described in the chapter "TextEdit" in Inside Macintosh: Text.