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- From: bj356@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Rick E. Dieringer)
- Subject: Re: Scrolling fields question
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- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, (USA)
- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 92 14:31:27 GMT
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- CH> I'm trying to find out what action occurs in a scrolling field
- CH> during the actual action of scrolling. It seems to me that mouseUp
- CH> and mouseDown don't occur and the scroll bar isn't really in the
- CH> field. I'm trying to make buttons move in relation to the scroll
- CH> and I'm having problems with the handler I wrote to do it during
- CH> idle.
- CH>
- CH> Also, I'd like to know where I can find the Rinaldi stack or XCMD
- CH> to make hierarchical menus.
- A better way than including buttons on a scrolling field (and really the
- ONLY way I know to make it work well) is to group text and set it off with a
- different style so the user notices it. Then in the field script write
- handlers using the clickText function to conduct the desired actions.
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- Rick Dieringer
- usr0563a@tso.uc.edu
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