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Subject: Re: Text in a wimp window
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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