RE: text entry widget?

["Bale, Dan" <DBale@xxxxxxxx>]

What about when text was deleted from a line?  Did the first word from the
next line advance back up to the line where text was deleted?

And how was performance???

- Dan Bale

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Langston [SMTP:jlangston@conexfreight.com]
> Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2000 6:56 PM
> To:   RPG400-L@midrange.com
> Subject:      Re: text entry widget?
> 
> I've seen one package, KeyesMail, that did a nice text editor with word
> wrap.  I talked to the programmer about it and he said it wasn't too
> difficult,
> although he wouldn't give me the details.  Trade secrets and all.
> 
> What I think he did was just have 80 column fields (arrays) that auto
> advanced,
> so when you entered a character into the last position, it returned to the
> program.
> The program then went to the field and grabed the last word, if the last
> character
> was not a space, and moved it down to the next field, deleting it from the
> field
> just entered.
> 
> Pretty nifty in operations though.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Jim Langston
> 
> Buck Calabro wrote:
> 
> > James David Rich wrote:
> >
> > >Does anyone know of a text entry widget
> > >that I can plug into rpg programs, much
> > >like gtk of motif?  I want to insert and
> > >delete text.  I want to be able to place
> > >the widget in a specified are of the screen.
> > >It needs to have callbacks that can
> > >interface with my rpg programs.
> >
> > Are you speaking of Visual Age for RPG?  Is the multiline edit part good
> > enough?  If not, you can link to ActiveX or DDE parts...  I haven't seen
> a
> > good text manipulation API for RPG IV on the 400.
> >
> > Buck Calabro
> > Aptis; Albany, NY
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