OpenEuphoria

Re: EuGrid Weirdness

• Posted by Phil Russell <pg_russell at lineone.net> Jan 30, 2005
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Hi CK,

This was a bug in earlier releases of EuGrid - AFAIK it should be fixed in
the current version. Please let me know if it isn't!

For anybody interested, I think the reason it was happening is that EuGrid is
based on a Windows PushButton control.  I did this to get around a limitation
that existed in win32lib at that time - namely that you couldn't create
a vanilla window as a child of another window.  The default behaviour 
in button controls seems to be to convert an ampersand (&) to an 
underline (_) in displayed text.

Various people pointed this out a year or so back, and suggested different
solutions.  In the end I found a flag in DrawText (DT_NOPREFIX) which
appears to suppress this behaviour.

HTH,

Phil

cklester wrote:
> 
> Ferlin Scarborough wrote:
> > 
> > I'm not sure about this in regards to EuGrid, but I have seen in a couple of
> > other Windows programming languages, in order to get the & character to
> > print
> > as an ampresand instead of an underline, you have to double it like:
> > 
> > "Howard && Sons Inc"
> > 
> > I thought since I have seen this in more than one language that has support
> > for windows programming, that it was a win32api thing.
> 
> Well, you don't have to do that for a text box, right? Or do you? I wouldn't
> think EuGrid would interpret text in a cell to have a hotkey marker, but
> maybe it does! :)
> 
> Jonas, I don't know what version I have. I'll have to check when I get
> back to work on Monday.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
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