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Re: WordWrap in MleText

• Posted by Derek Parnell <dparnell at BIGPOND.NET.AU> Oct 08, 2000
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Hi,
in the next release of win32lib, you will be able to specify the exact flags
that are used when creating controls, thereby getting around the default
flags for a class.
---
Derek


----- Original Message -----
From: "Judith Evans" <camping at FLASH.NET>
To: <EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU>
Sent: Sunday, October 08, 2000 9:42 PM
Subject: Re: WordWrap in MleText


> Dan,
> That's correct. You can also remove the Vertical scrollbar and have a nice
> 'box' that can't grow on you which I have used in a little book program I
> started but have not completed.
>
> I had asked for this awhile ago 'cause I hate modifying win32lib.ew but
the
> general feedback was we didn't want to kludge up win32lib with all these
> 'special' controls and that maybe sometype of 'style' change could be
> incorporated to achieve. I don't know where all that stands since I've
been
> completely absorbed in IDE. I've still 'stuck' back on version 50.
>
> Judith Evans
>
>
>
> On Sun, 8 Oct 2000 03:29:52 -0700, Dan B Moyer <DANMOYER at PRODIGY.NET>
wrote:
>
> >Ad, Derek, David, Judith, and all,
> >
> >I find this hard to believe, but I think I found something *very*
> >interesting!
> >
> >if you delete "WS_HSCROLL" from Win32Lib at
> >"MleEdit" ,
> >
> >you can then have AUTOMATIC WORD WRAP!  Without doing or adding ANYTHING
> >else! Just like that!  Wow!  ('cause it's built it already somewhere.)
> >
> >And as a BONUS (?), it appears to give an automatic "text selection"
> >function, at least visually, and I would suppose that there should be
some
> >way to programmatically get the selected text or its boundaries, or
> >something, too.
> >
> >Does this look right to anyone else???
> >
> >Dan Moyer
> >
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Ad Rienks" <kwibus at ZONNET.NL>
> >To: <EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU>
> >Sent: Friday, October 06, 2000 8:19 AM
> >Subject: WordWrap in MleText
> >
> >
> >Hello,
> >
> >Just a quick question. I thought this would be easy, but I can't find it
in
> >any documentation on Win32Lib I've read.
> >How do you create a MleText control with WordWrap and ReadOnly?
> >ReadOnly is easy, just use ES_READONLY as the last parameter in create().
> >That works nice; but I could not find a constant for WordWrap.
> >
> >Thanks for your support,
> >
> >Ad