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From: levin@bbn.com (Joel B Levin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Wanted: Code for simple text interface
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Date: 31 Jul 89 15:40:30 GMT
References: <9674@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
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In article <9674@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> bskendig@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Brian Kendig) writes:
|A simpler way would be to ignore TextEdit.  I can listen for characters and
|echo them to the screen when I get them, and when I get a return or enter, I
|can parse the line.  Scrolling is a tad difficult and unwieldy, but that can
|be overcome.  The problem here is that when the user types delete, the delete
|appears as a *character* on the screen - one of those little white rectangles.

So don't just echo the characters, look at them.  If you get a delete,
don't echo it, erase the previous character.  If you get a word-delete
character (whatever you choose), don't echo it, erase the previous
word, etc.  terminal interfaces have been doing this for years!
|
|So, how do I do this?  I want to have an IBM-style interface (hold your cries;
|there's a method to my madness) in a window.  There's got to be an easy way!

I'll leave the flames to others, I sense them coming...
	/JBL
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