OpenEuphoria

Re: New User

• Posted by Dan Moyer <DANIELMOYER at prodigy.net> Jun 26, 2003
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(Hello, & welcome Peter)

Ray,

>From a purely readability aspect, maybe putting the "yes" or "no" at the end
of a line by itself, with any "yes" info on a new line would be even easier
to read?

Just a thought.

Dan Moyer

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ray Tomes" <rtomes at ihug.co.nz>

<snip>

> Another string function that I want is for the same program. I want to
> output some text in a text box with automatic wrap at a point NOT the same
> as the width of the text field and then put some more text to begin at the
> point where the wrapping was occurring and also to wrap but now using the
> full window. e.g. the result might look like this:
>
> (my text box is this big) ---------------------------------------------V
> (my wrap point is initially set here)-----------------V
>
> Did you ever live in another country? If so, please
> tell about that experience.                            No. ~
>
> Did you ever travel overseas to countries that speak
> different languages than your native language? If so,
> please tell about your experience.                     Yes. I went to
> Europe and visited England, France, Italy and Germany with very brief
> stops in Switzerland and Austria. Mostly we managed quite well speaking
> English and with our primitive French. Bonjour!
>
> The idea is that the person reading the answers can easily see the Yes or
> No and can then read the text for the Yes answers. At the same time, it
> minimizes the size of the output in printed pages. Incidentally, the
> Yes/No and the detailed answers are substituted from <TAG>s as described
> above.
>
> Ideally I want to do this using variable fonts (I can do it without too
> much difficulty with a fixed font). I suppose that this is possible as I
> saw a function somewhere(the name of which I forget) that returns the
> pixel length of a string so I can keep adding another word until I pass
> the place that I want to stop and then take one word back, chuck in a NL
> and carry on.
>
> Ray
>
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