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- From: mark@pokey.jsc.nasa.gov (Mark Manning)
- Subject: Two things
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.191432.13493@aio.jsc.nasa.gov>
- Sender: news@aio.jsc.nasa.gov (USENET News System)
- Organization: NASA
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 19:14:32 GMT
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- Hello! :)
-
- I have one question and one statement.
-
- Question:
-
- I'm trying to change the font, size, and facing of a dialog's
- static text field. I'm sure this has been asked before and I'm
- sure there is a pat answer for this - but I missed it. Can someone
- tell me how to do this? Thanks.
-
- Statement:
-
- I *really* wish that the Inside Macintosh manuals made a clear
- delineation between the different types of information which is
- returned from functions. What I mean to say is: Some functions
- return local coordinates and some global. But no where is there
- mentioned who does what. So the poor programmer has to either
- ask (which isn't too bad if you have Usenet) or simply go on blind
- faith which kind of information has been returned. Of course, I
- have an _old_ set of IM manuals. So this might have changed. :)
- But if not - could this be addressed in the next release of the
- manuals? Maybe the simple addition of the two words "local coordinate"
- and "global coordinates" could be attached to the sentences like
- the following: "TextBox draws the specified text in the GLOBAL COORDINATE
- rectangle indicated by the box parameter with justification just...."
- Then maybe I could stop being so confused about which coordinate
- system we are using. Thanks. :)
-