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RE: What am I doing wrong?

• Posted by Louis at cwshop.com Sep 29, 2003
• 481 views

Thanks, Brian.

I think your label control approach is cleaner.  However, who would have=
 guessed that the words "Left-justified label control." means "Write text=
 into a window."  I guess I need a secret decoder ring to understand this=
 documentation.

Avoid the onXXX functions?  I guess that is why the onPaint was left=
 undocumented, though it was mentioned in forPaint and it appears in an=
 example.

Somehow, I get the idea that I need a Windows Programming reference.=
  Although it will probably be written for the C programmer, I suspect it=
 would be a great help to me.  Any suggestions?  Did O'Reilly publish a=
 Nutshell book?

Louis.

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On 9/29/2003 at 6:30 PM Brian Broker wrote:

>
>
>Hi Louis,
>
>First, avoid using the onXXX method of handling events and definitely 
>don't mix it with setHandler because setHandler will disable the onXXX 
>method.
>
>You are correct in using the paint event to show your text...  Unless 
>you use a label control for your text, you will need to wPuts it every 
>time you need to repaint the window.
>
>The following code works fine:
>--------------------
>include win32lib.ew
>without warning
>
>constant -- Win32 Setup
>   Win =3D create(Window, "Window Title", 0, {0.5,-150}, {0.5, -220}, 300,=
 
>220, 0),
>   Done =3D create(PushButton, {"Exit","Close window and exit."}, Win, 
>150, 160, 60, 25, w32AUTOCLOSE)
>
>procedure onPaint_Win(integer self, integer event, sequence parms)
>   wPuts(Win, "This is some text")
>end procedure
>setHandler(Win,w32HPaint,routine_id("onPaint_Win"))
>
>WinMain(Win, Normal)
>include win32lib.ew
>without warning
>
>constant -- Win32 Setup
>   Win =3D create(Window, "Window Title", 0, {0.5,-150}, {0.5, -220}, 300,=
 
>220, 0),
>   Done =3D create(PushButton, {"Exit","Close window and exit."}, Win, 
>150, 160, 60, 25, w32AUTOCLOSE),
>   Label =3D create(LText, "This is some text", Win, 5, 5, 80, 15, 0)
>
>WinMain(Win, Normal)
>--------------------
>-- Brian