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Re: Caret cursor in Win32Lib: how do I use it?

• Posted by Dan B Moyer <DANMOYER at PRODIGY.NET> Jan 14, 2000
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Allen,

Oh, I had been writing text to the window, so I didn't realize the caret
cursor wouldn't work there too; thanks.

Dan
-----Original Message-----
From: Allen Soard <esp-software at MAIL.HYPERMART.NET>
To: EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU <EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU>
Date: Friday, January 14, 2000 7:01 PM
Subject: Re: Caret cursor in Win32Lib: how do I use it?


>Dan, Windows can't themselves handle text. If you
>want a text curser in a window, you have to
>explicitly draw it.
>-Allen
>
>Allen,
>
>Nope, I'm just writing text to a regular window;
>I use the window & text
>metrics to figure where to put things so they're
>centered, but it's just a
>regular window, & no cursor appears in it from
>what I thought should create
>it.
>
>Any thoughts as to why what I wrote  doesn't make
>a cursor appear in a
>regular window??
>
>Dan
>
>
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