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- From: d88-jwa@hemul.nada.kth.se (Jon WΣtte)
- Subject: Re: Help for Poor Student
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.193851.15483@kth.se>
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- Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
- References: <1993Jan26.160238.22397@st-andrews.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 19:38:51 GMT
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- In <1993Jan26.160238.22397@st-andrews.ac.uk> akm@st-andrews.ac.uk (Alasdair Macdonald) writes:
-
- >A couple of questions which may be loosely conneted.
-
- > TextEdit. I have a dialog box with a user item for
- > putting text into. I then put a scroll bar beside it
-
- > I could implement continuos scrolling using StillDown
- > but that lets the user move the mouse off the scroll
-
- > HowUs it done? Sorry if itUs a FAQ.
-
- NOT! It's not done. It's against the HIG. I hate it.
-
- If you _want_ to do it, do it in your thumb tracking
- function (I assume you have Inside Mac volume I...)
- You could get the mouse position, and scroll the text
- to where the mouse is relative to the control's rect,
- with the values limited to max/min scrollable, of
- course.
-
- >2. I would like to use thing like Gestalt but have no
-
- This is a hard one. The obvious response is "upgrade,"
- but maybe you can find the MPW libraries and headers
- lying around somewhere, and try converting them?
-
- Cheers,
-
- / h+
- --
- -- Jon W{tte, h+@nada.kth.se, Mac Hacker Deluxe --
- The word "politics" is derived from the word "poly", meaning
- "many", and the word "ticks", meaning "blood sucking parasites".
- -- Larry Hardiman
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