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- From: edw@distant.uucp (Ed Watkeys)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
- Subject: Geneva 9 Radio Buttons, Checkboxes, etc...
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 21:00:12 EST
- Organization: Distant Software
- Message-ID: <01050133.oc46s3@distant.uucp>
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- I just got ahold of SuperClock! 4.0.2 (very nice), and while I've used
- SuperClock! for a few years, the nice, tasteful Geneva 9 radio buttons etc.
- just got me thinking about how I could do them in my own dialogs.
-
- Snooping through SuperClock! with ResEdit, I found that his radio buttons
- (and checkboxes, presumably) use custom controls. Rather than simply stealing
- his controls and trying to get them to work, I would like to find out for
- myself how it's done (also, it seems unethical, if not illegal to steal his
- controls). Anyway, while this doesn't seem like a really hard thing to do,
- it requires a knowledge of controls a little more extensive than I possess.
- (Incidentally, my knowledge consists knowing how to manipulate controls, not
- creating them or doing abnormal things with them.)
-
- This Geneva 9 thing seems to be really catching on: AppleTalk Remote Access
- make extensive use of Geneva 9, as do many other programs which I can't
- remember right now. Chicago is pretty ugly, IMHO, and once you go Geneva for
- user interface stuff, well, you know what they say...
-
- In any event, if anyone knows and would like to explain if there's a way to
- do dialogs with Geneva 9 in a way that is not painful, I would love to hear
- it. I guess you could use some other font if you really want to, but I don't
- know why you would...
-
- Ed
-
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