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- From: irmen@cs.vu.nl (Irmen de Jong)
- Subject: Re: Multi-line TEXT_KIND gadgets
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- Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
- Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 12:26:21 GMT
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- On 25 Jan 96 10:55:58 GMT David Kinder (kinder@teaching.physics.ox.ac.uk) (David Kinder) wrote:
- : Manning Lawrence Albert (ceb2_95) (manningl@ee.port.ac.uk) wrote:
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- : : I'm writing an address book prog using DICE and I was wondering if anyone knows
- : : of a way to implement multiply line TEXT_KIND gadgets using gadtools. Is there
- : : an easy way of doing this? I've thought of two ways.
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- : Sorry, but neither of these two ways is going to work. GadTools simply can't do
- : multi-line string gadgets. However, these is package on Aminet for this:
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- : dev/gui/textfield.lha
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- : which provides a small (20K) BOOPSI gadget as an external class. It's very easy
- : to use (I've used it in several programs) and does exactly what you want.
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- : David
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- Do more people use it? I d\l'ed it recently and took a look at it. Looks very good.
- Just what you need for f.i. a "postit" type proggy.
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- Just curious (I'd like to see more software-reuse)
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