OpenEuphoria

Re: A scrolling question and a tab question

• Posted by Derek Parnell <ddparnell at bigpond.com> Apr 24, 2001
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Derek Brown wrote:
> I'm writing text to a window with wPuts() and wPrint() I need to be able
> to make the window scrollable to see all of the text.  Is there a way to
 > render this?  I know how to do it without smoothly scrolling, by showing
> a page at a time, but I'd much rather get a VScroll to work.  And I'd
> like to avoid using a List or a RichEdit if at all possible.  Any
> suggestions?

Just guessing but you could try BitBlt to scroll the client area on a Scroll
event and then draw the single "uncovered" line. I used this technique on
DOS and Amiga platforms with some success. I'll see if I can knock up a
simple demo.

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Derek Parnell
Melbourne, Australia
"To finish a job quickly, go slower."