| Re: Text Widget Confession [message #26751 is a reply to message #26626] |
Sun, 23 September 2001 16:21   |
Andrew Cool
Messages: 219
Registered: January 1996
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David Fanning wrote:
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> Andrew Cool (cooladjc@chariot.net.au) writes:
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>> Here's a Fortran-ish, Saturday night, looking thing that will return
>> the correct line number for (hopefully) any text file that you suck
>> into the text widget with Dialog_Pickfile.
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> Well, I'm grateful for any solution, even a Fortran-ish one. :-)
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> It turns out a list widget, although simplifying my
> life, made other things more complicated. For example,
> one of the requirements is that we be able to cut
> and paste information in the "form" into an application
> like Excel. You can do this from a text widget, but
> not from a List widget, even though the two look identical
> on the display.
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> (And while I'm on the topic, how come you can't
> send anything but graphics output commands to the
> Printer? Does this make any sense to you!?)
No, but what does Windows?
Why not do what we did in the Good Ol' Days? Grab the printer manual
and write your own driver?
Andrew
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