How to display large amount of text in a dialog box?

[Ali Raza]

Hi,
My application has a movable modal dialog box. I want to display a
large amount of text (approx 3 pages)

in the dialog box which (text) is not editable. It is much like
license agreement dialog boxes that

commonly appear in installers. How can i do this. What controls i need
to use. Since the size of dialog

box is not big enough to show three pages of text, how can i make the
text scroll. I am using

codewarrior on Mac OS 9.1 and i have created the dialog resource using
Constructor. I have read the

already posted messages on this list having similar topics but since i
am relatively new to the Mac

arena therefore they were a bit too advance for a novice like me to
comprehend. I would really

appreciate some sample code or a link leading to one.

Thanks
Ali

[Uli Kusterer]

In article <4a227e71.0309240548.2aaf7f86@posting.google.com >,
[email]sarshah20@yahoo.com[/email] (Ali Raza) wrote:

> commonly appear in installers. How can i do this. What controls i need
> to use. Since the size of dialog
>
> box is not big enough to show three pages of text, how can i make the
> text scroll. I am using

It's always a good idea to search the headers:

In <ControlDefinitions.h> there's a scrolling text box control
(sometimes also referred to as a scrolling about box). It uses TextEdit,
though, which means your text may not be over 32k (but 3 pages is
usually less -- I have a story of 10 DIN A4 pages that is roughly 40k).

If you need more text or selectable text, you'll have to go for either
MLTE (which isn't really a control, but also supports scrolling) or a
third-party package like WASTE (I think there are WASTE controls
floating around the web in spades).

HTH,
-- Uli
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