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Re: mle help

• Posted by Brian Jackson <bjackson at 2FARGON.COM> Feb 02, 2000
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On Wed, 2 Feb 2000 10:01:43 -0500, Mike Sabal <MikeS at NOTATIONS.COM> wrote:

>Thanks for the help on the crashing routine_id.  Moving the call to
>WinMain to the bottom of the main program rather than in the include files
>worked like a charm.  Now to my next dilemma.
>
>My window consists of three MLEs only.  The first two need to be read-
>only, while the third is editable.  But I need to be able to scroll the
> first two.
<SNIP>

Try creating the object with the ES_READONLY flag:

------------------------------- UNTESTED CODE -----------------------------
constant ES_READONLY = #00000800  -- unless its already declared in win32lib

global constant
MainWin = create(Window, "Read only MLE Demo", 0, 0, 0, 300, 200, 0),
MyMLE = create(MleText, "", MainWin, 0, 0, 300, 200, ES_READONLY)
--... your code follows


>So I say to myself, I'll just change the background color to the first two
>using SetWindowBackColor.  That didn't work, so I'd use SetBackColor.
>Still no go.  Try repaintWindow after setting a background color.  No
>dice.  Set the background color of the MLE, the whole window, both --
>nothing.

I investigated the same thing once, very briefly.  Windows uses a special
message to change colors on edittexts and comboboxes.  I didn't get in to
any more detail than that.


>Also, when I setText(mle3,""), I still get a blank line in the box.  How
>do I get rid of it?

Hmmm.  I tried that one, and couldn't make it happen.  I'm using win32lib
version 0.45k.

Brian