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Re: Help for a beginner please!

• Posted by Mike Dawes <mike at dawes.com> Feb 24, 2006
• 453 views

Derek Parnell wrote:
> 
> Mike Dawes wrote:
> 
> > 2. For the Win32 Library, I seem to need another level (more basic or
> > complete)
> > of documentation than that accessed through the IDE Help. As an example 
> > MlE Text maybe something I want, but I cannot find decent explanation of the
> > Control and its parameters.
> > 
> > It always seems as if there is one other magic document out there which will
> > unlock all this for me!
> 
> I agree that the existing documention is never enough for people starting out.
> I'm responsible for most of the documentation for the win32lib and it is huge,
> but it doesn't really help people learn how to do GUI.
> 
> Anyhow, I have two suggestions for now. Explore the sample/demo programs that
> come with the library (there are about 250 of those) and see how its done. The
> best start for doing that is to run the 'RunDemos' program.
> 
> The second suggestion is to call upon the helpful people here to give you are
> few clues every now and then. For example, you mention the MleText
> control...that
> control is useful for unformatted, multi-line text. It doesn't do
> multiple-colored
> text, and the other things you see in a typical word processor. Here is a
> drop-dead
> simple program to show this.
> 
>  --------
>  include win32lib.ew
>  without warning
>  integer win
>  integer textviewer
> 
>  win = create(Window, "MultiLine Box", 0, 0, 0, 400, 400, 0)
>  textviewer = create(MleText, "", win, 10, 10, 350, 350, 0)
>  WinMain(win, Normal)
>  ------
> 
> 
> -- 
> Derek Parnell
> Melbourne, Australia
> Skype name: derek.j.parnell
Thank you Derek!
Another post helped me a little with my question 1.
I was hoping MleText would be an editable matrix. I am trying to convert my DOS
Sudoku program to Windows as a learning tool.
For that I want to display a 9 x 9 matrix of numbers so the user can edit blank
squares. His entry would then be an event to initiate a logic.

Isn't this editting window for the forum annoying with no word wrap!
Mike