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- From: drvsim01@uctvax.uct.ac.za (Simon Driver)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
- Subject: Re: I need help with TVISION (StatusLine)
- Message-ID: <1992Jul22.111504.202068@uctvax.uct.ac.za>
- Date: 22 Jul 92 13:15:04 GMT
- Article-I.D.: uctvax.1992Jul22.111504.202068
- References: <92203.123606LOPEZJ@EVALUN11.BITNET>
- Organization: University of Cape Town
- Lines: 36
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- In article below <LOPEZJ@EVALUN11.BITNET> writes:
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- > -How can I do that StatusLine show help messages (like IDE of Turbo
- > Pascal). I think that I would use the Hint function but I don't know do
- > it.
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-
- I asked this question a while back and got a few replies (thank you) but all
- involved the hint. You just place a global variable in your hint function and
- this takes care of this, but you get the following problem.
-
- F1 Help | Please wait while loading C:\TP6\TEST.TXT
-
- This doesn't help much because if it is a large file, or it is being formated,
- the user might think (s)he can press F1 to get help during the loading process.
-
- What I did was to do a hack job. Just before and after the loading process, you
- cheat a bit and get the statusline to point to your own bit of text, then
- update the statusline. I can post the source if anyone is interested.
-
- BTW : I'm still looking for a TVision Word Wrap editor object.
-
- Cheers,
- Simon.
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