Re: Text in a wimp window

From	Richard Ashbery <basura@invalid.addr.uk>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.acorn.programmer
Subject	Re: Text in a wimp window
Date	2025-08-14 21:19 +0100
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Message-ID	<5c4c6c50b0basura@invalid.addr.uk> (permalink)
References	<5c4be2e7bbbob@sick-of-spam.invalid>

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In article <5c4be2e7bbbob@sick-of-spam.invalid>, Bob Latham
<bob@sick-of-spam.invalid> wrote:
> I wish to send dozen lines of text to a wimp window without icons
> in a programme I'm writing. How do I do it?

> For literally decades I have avoided trying to place text in a
> window and have managed with icons. The reason is simple, in over
> 40 years I cannot find anywhere a simple explanation of how to do
> it.

> Yes, I know a bit about some thing, works_area and visible_area,
> redraw boxes etc. I'm not yet "stuck" on those things.

> But how the blazes you write the letter A to a wimp window I've
> never understood. I would love a clue to this.

> How do you select the window? What cursor is it graphics VDU5 or
> text and why?. How do you move it (I'm NOT coding in BASIC)?

Pity as I was going to suggest The Application Tutorial and Listings
Book by Chris Dewhurst of Drag 'n Drop fame. There is an example of
getting text into a window but as Druck says by means of an icon(s).
The book is written for BASIC users which I don't think is what you
want. 

Richard

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Text in a wimp window Bob Latham <bob@sick-of-spam.invalid> - 2025-08-13 20:18 +0100
  Re: Text in a wimp window druck <news@druck.org.uk> - 2025-08-14 09:35 +0100
    Re: Text in a wimp window Bob Latham <bob@sick-of-spam.invalid> - 2025-08-14 09:54 +0100
    Re: Text in a wimp window Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2025-08-14 10:03 +0100
      Re: Text in a wimp window Bob Latham <bob@sick-of-spam.invalid> - 2025-08-14 10:45 +0100
        Re: Text in a wimp window Sebastian Barthel <naitsabes@freenet.de> - 2025-08-14 14:37 +0000
          Re: Text in a wimp window Bob Latham <bob@sick-of-spam.invalid> - 2025-08-14 17:57 +0100
      Re: Text in a wimp window Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2025-08-14 16:12 +0100
  Re: Text in a wimp window Richard Ashbery <basura@invalid.addr.uk> - 2025-08-14 21:19 +0100
    Re: Text in a wimp window Bob Latham <bob@sick-of-spam.invalid> - 2025-08-15 16:39 +0100
      Re: Text in a wimp window Steve Fryatt <news@stevefryatt.org.uk> - 2025-08-15 20:06 +0100
        Re: Text in a wimp window Bob Latham <bob@sick-of-spam.invalid> - 2025-08-16 16:10 +0100
          Re: Text in a wimp window Steve Fryatt <news@stevefryatt.org.uk> - 2025-08-18 11:50 +0100
            Re: Text in a wimp window Bob Latham <bob@sick-of-spam.invalid> - 2025-08-18 12:58 +0100
            Re: Text in a wimp window Bob Latham <bob@sick-of-spam.invalid> - 2025-08-20 18:35 +0100
              Re: Text in a wimp window Sebastian Barthel <naitsabes@freenet.de> - 2025-08-21 13:01 +0000
              Re: Text in a wimp window Harriet Bazley <harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> - 2025-08-23 00:31 +0100
      Re: Text in a wimp window Jean-Michel <jmc.bruck@orange.fr> - 2025-08-17 18:01 +0200

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