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From: "Kevin O'Donovan" <abaddon@nasoftwr.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Gem List
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 1994 11:21:24 +0100 (BST)
In-Reply-To: <62940726015726/0006795560PK4EM@mcimail.com> from "Daniel J. Hollis" at Jul 25, 94 08:57:00 pm
Precedence: bulk
> > 4. How do you make a window untoppable under MultiTOS and Geneva?
>
> I don't think there's a window setting that you can use to do this. I think
> it all depends on your library. I could be wrong (if I am, the index is
> not in my GEM Master Listing) but I'm probably right.
>
Surely its as simple as not checking for WM_TOPPED messages for it in
your event loop. If you're doing it as part of a library then simply attach
a flag to your window structure to indicate this and check against it in
the event loop.
> The only real reason you would create your own objc_edit routine is to
> have INSERT/REPLACE, or to have a scrollable text object (like allowing the
> user to enter 40+ characters in a field)
>
Or any other non-standard extensions that come to mind, like cut and paste
from text fields, improved character entry verification, multi-line text
fields, etc.
Kev
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Kevin O'Donovan
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