1. Nubee, and Challenged
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Hi Folks,
Am extremely new here. Have been tinkering with
the DEMO "Window.exw" I'd like to use it as an
unavoidable message window. I have been able to
make it work fine with short messages from the
command line, but am stuck at making it display a
multiline message (word wrapped). I plan to read
the messages from a file, but I'm not asking about
that. Yet.
Thanks for your time. (ET)
stumblin, fumblin, bumblin, but step, and step
again
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2. Re: Nubee, and Challenged
On Saturday 25 August 2001 12:49, ET wrote:
>
> Hi Folks,
> Am extremely new here. Have been tinkering with
> the DEMO "Window.exw" I'd like to use it as an
> unavoidable message window. I have been able to
> make it work fine with short messages from the
> command line, but am stuck at making it display a
> multiline message (word wrapped). I plan to read
> the messages from a file, but I'm not asking about
> that. Yet.
You need more capable widgets than the simple message box
provides. The easiest way to get to know these is to
download Judith Evans' great IDE from the RDS "recent contributions"
web page. It's easy to use, a lot like Delphi or VB, and you'll be able to
create whatever you needwith just a few button clicks and a few lines of
code.
Regards,
Irv
3. Re: Nubee, and Challenged
ET,
Irv's suggestion is probably the best, along with "look at Win32Lib", but
here's the best I could do within the context of the DEMO "Window.exw" :
1. add: DT_WORDBREAK = #0010
to
constant DT_SINGLELINE = #0020,
DT_CENTER = #0001,
DT_VCENTER = #0004
so it looks like:
constant DT_SINGLELINE = #0020,
DT_CENTER = #0001,
DT_VCENTER = #0004,
DT_WORDBREAK = #0010 --16
Then, to the place the text message is defined, add this:
sequence someText
someText = "A Plain Vanilla Window using Euphoria!\n"
someText = someText & "This is a new line of text."
then change the "allocate_string" line to look like this:
Euphoria = allocate_string(someText)
then in the line starting : c_proc(DrawText, {hdc, Euphoria,
replace the DT_SINBLELINE with DT_WORDBREAK so it looks like this:
c_proc(DrawText, {hdc, Euphoria, -1, rect,
or_all({DT_WORDBREAK, DT_CENTER, DT_VCENTER})})
Unfortunately, it now *doesn't* vertically center the two lines of text,
don't know why, maybe someone else does, and maybe there's a better way,
too.
Dan Moyer
----- Original Message -----
From: "ET" <et54 at mumctville.org>
To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
Sent: Saturday, August 25, 2001 9:49 AM
Subject: Nubee, and Challenged
>
> Hi Folks,
> Am extremely new here. Have been tinkering with
> the DEMO "Window.exw" I'd like to use it as an
> unavoidable message window. I have been able to
> make it work fine with short messages from the
> command line, but am stuck at making it display a
> multiline message (word wrapped). I plan to read
> the messages from a file, but I'm not asking about
> that. Yet.
>
> Thanks for your time. (ET)
>
> stumblin, fumblin, bumblin, but step, and step
> again
>
>
>
>
