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- From: preavley@cs.utexas.edu (Paul Reavley)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
- Subject: Re: TurboVision Question (w/ example)
- Date: 23 Jan 1993 05:31:59 -0600
- Organization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin
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- berend@contrast.wlink.nl (Berend de Boer) writes:
- >>colemanr@garnet.berkeley.edu wrote in a message to All:
-
- > cbe> I have the same problem as the original poster, but in my
- > cbe> case the text will change as data is processed. I would
- > cbe> REALLY appreciate it if someone could expand a little on
- > cbe> this idea of 'smart text'. I'm pretty new to TurboVision and
-
- >The other writers used the Set- and GetData methods. Another thing
- >might be to override the Draw method of some selfmade View. That Draw
- >method can be display different texts by drawing some global variable
- >(most simple, not very TV-ish).
- etc....
- Check out the TIndicator object at the bottom left hand corner
- of TEditWindow s in tvedit.pas. I believe it uses the Draw method
- for such a purpose. I expanded TIndicator to display overwrite/
- insert mode, pagenumber, column number, line number and line
- spacing.
-
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- Paul Reavley preavley.cs.utexas.edu
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