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- From: row@bnr.co.uk (Reuben Wells)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
- Subject: Re: WordHound
- Message-ID: <1992Jul28.113953.8666@bnr.co.uk>
- Date: 28 Jul 92 11:39:53 GMT
- References: <20Pfcjj010n@st-andrews.ac.uk> <1992Jul28.101659.20367@doc.ic.ac.uk>
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- Reply-To: row@bnr.co.uk (Reuben Wells)
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- In the referenced article ijp@swan.doc.ic.ac.uk (Ian Palmer) writes:
- >gta@st-andrews.ac.uk (Graham Allan) writes:
- >The problem is that if I make the window remain open, next time you
- >use it the caret might be somewhere else, and so the program will be
- >unable to get a correct caret location. My question is, is there any
- >way that every time you gain the caret, note where it was just before
- >you gained it?
-
- Yes - just trap the Wimp_GainCaret and Wimp_LoseCaret events ! I have
- an application that auto claims the caret when the mouse pointer
- is over its window and puts it back when you move back out of the window
- not very Acorn standard but I find it very useful :-)
-
- Reuben
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- Reuben O. Wells - BNR Europe Ltd - (+44) 279 403704
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