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In article <5c4c6c50b0basura@invalid.addr.uk>,
   Richard Ashbery <basura@invalid.addr.uk> wrote:

> 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. 

I have been looking at the possibility of using icons. The big
disappointment with them to me is that I don't think you can change
the pointer to text buffer *after* the icon has been created. So no
fast and easy way to make an icon based window scroll even just a few
lines.

Thanks for the suggestion.

Bob.