Q:
I tried to create a static text item without a window parameter
(passing NULL as first parameter) for later embedding in
an HIView but CreateStaticTextControl fails with paramErr
(-50) when I call it that way. What am I doing wrong?
A:
Nothing, this is a known bug (r. 3068049) which will be fixed in a later
Mac OS X release. In the meantime, as a workaround, you should call
CreateStaticTextControl with the correct window parameter
and then move the resulting HIView to the appropriate parent
with HIViewAddSubview. If the appropriate parent is the content
view of the window, then you don't need to move the
resulting HIView since it has already been added there when
created.
The CreateStaticTextControl API is not the only one which
has this bug. The same problem and workaround also apply to:
CreateRoundButtonControl,
CreatePlacardControl,
CreateIconControl,
CreatePictureControl,
CreatePopupArrowControl, and
CreatePopupButtonControl.
[Nov 12 2002]
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