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From: dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: TextEdit help
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Date: 24 Jul 89 19:29:23 GMT
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I'm trying for the first time to use TextEdit in one of my windows.
I can display and scroll text; the problem comes with selections.
The selected area hilites just fine, and the startSel and endSel
fields get updated to the proper values.  The problem is that,
the next time I make a selection, the previous hiliting is not undone;
TextEdit just happily inverts my new selection.  After doing this for a while,
the window looks like some sort of demented checkerboard.

Inside Macintosh and every programming example I can find just call
TEClick, and seem to think that's sufficient; I'm doing the same, and
getting nowhere.

Does this sound familiar to anyone?  What could cause this sort of
behavior?

Please answer by mail; no reason to bore everyone else with the answer
to such a basic question.

Thanks for any light anyone can shed on this.
-- 
Steve Dorner, U of Illinois Computing Services Office
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