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From: dz@plum.ucsb.edu (Daniel James Zerkle)
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Subject: need advice on scrolling text fields
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Date: 23 Aug 89 16:50:29 GMT
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This is a shameless request for advice.

As some of you may know, I am working on a project that will behave
similarly to the Digital Librarian.  As such, I would like to use a
feature similar to the DL, both because it will be less confusing to
have a similar interface, and because it is a nice idea.

I want to have a scrolling text field that will display file names,
one per line, very much like the file names are displayed by DL after
a search.  When the user clicks on one of these lines, I want it to
be highlighted and for the program to tell which line was hit.  I need
to be able to clear the whole field, also.

Am I going to need a custom view to do this, or is there already some-
thing available?  I remember reading in the past here that some people
have had a lot of trouble with something like this.  (I would go back
& read it, but our news gets flushed every couple of days)  Are there
any pitfalls I should watch out for?  Which bits of documentation
should I read?  Are there some features I should add that I haven't
mentioned yet?  Is there anything special I need to do to put this into
an application with the Interface Builder?  Is there anything else I
should know?

Just so you know where to aim, I'm very familiar with UNIX and C,
but only have a basic understanding of Objective-C and Interface
Builder.  (Outlet?  What's an outlet?)

Many thanks in advance (and probably after, too).

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