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- From: akm@st-andrews.ac.uk (Alasdair Macdonald)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
- Subject: Help for Poor Student
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.160238.22397@st-andrews.ac.uk>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 16:02:38 GMT
- Organization: St. Andrews University, Scotland.
- Lines: 42
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- A couple of questions which may be loosely conneted.
-
- Let me first explain something. I am a very poor student
- struggling to finish his PhD having run out of funding.
- Mac programming is a hobby that I have no money for so I
- have to make do with the little knowledge I can extract
- from any source.
- This actually makes Mac programming fun :-) and gives
- great satisfaction when something works out.
-
- At the moment I use a Plus with Think Pascal 3.02 under
- sys 6.0.7 and surprisingly my programs still run on
- LC IIU's under sys 7.
-
- To the questions then.
-
- 1. I canUt seem to implement contiuous scrolling using
- TextEdit. I have a dialog box with a user item for
- putting text into. I then put a scroll bar beside it
- and activate it if the text is too big for the user
- item. Using ModalDialog I find where the mouse has
- been clicked and if it is in the scoll arrows
- (forget the little square box) and if TrackControl
- returns true I scroll.
- I could implement continuos scrolling using StillDown
- but that lets the user move the mouse off the scroll
- arrow without stopping the scrolling. Also the arrow
- doesnUt darken as with TrackControl so I must be doing
- someting wrong.
- HowUs it done? Sorry if itUs a FAQ.
-
- 2. I would like to use thing like Gestalt but have no
- interfaces for them. Is there any way I could do it
- or do I have to resign myself to the fact that
- without an upgrade IUm sunk?
-
-
- Thanks a lot in advance,
-
- Alasdair Macdonald.
-
- akm@uk.ac.st-and
-