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Re: WordWrap in MleText

• Posted by Dan B Moyer <DANMOYER at PRODIGY.NET> Oct 08, 2000
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Derek,

Neat!

Now, do you or anyone else know the max (content) size a RichText control
can take, and did I see something some time ago about some way to increase
it (well, to increase size of MLE)?

Dan

----- Original Message -----
From: "Derek Parnell" <dparnell at BIGPOND.NET.AU>
To: <EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU>
Sent: Sunday, October 08, 2000 4:05 AM
Subject: Re: WordWrap in MleText


> 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