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- From: tribby@hpindda.cup.hp.com (David Tribby)
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 17:45:31 GMT
- Subject: Re: Need help with LineEdit Control flags
- Message-ID: <123400006@hpindda.cup.hp.com>
- Organization: HP Info Networks Div/Cupertino CA
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- References: <123400005@hpindda.cup.hp.com>
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- > Pauley@vnet.ibm.com (Paul Benson) writes...
- > In <123400005@hpindda.cup.hp.com> David Tribby writes:
- > >I'm writing a desktop program that displays text values that the
- > >program (not the user) updates in a window.
- > > <stuff deleted>
- > >a HiliteControl(0x00FF, ... ) for each of the line edit controls in
- > >the window so that users can't modify the text.
- >
- > ... However, in your app, I think
- > the use of static text fields would be more in the HIG, since you never
- > let the user change the values. It would be confusing to se a text _edit_
- > field which could never be editted.
-
- Pauley--
- I'm trying to do things very much like a control in SynthLab...an
- "increment" and "decrement" icon button with the numeric result shown
- in a 3-character LE Text field. I use a Line Edit control rather than
- static text because (1) there's an easy way for the program to change
- the value of the control and (2) the enclosing rectangle look cool :-).
- It doesn't appear confusing at all (to me).
- If the *only* reason the manual says not to use the Hilite bits is
- the visual interface, I would go ahead an use them. If, on the other
- hand, the toolbox code is making assumptions about those bits being clear,
- I wouldn't use it and would stick with the HiliteControl() call.
-
- -- Dave
-
- Dave Tribby Internet: tribby@cup.hp.com GEnie: D.TRIBBY
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