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From: csrobe@CS.WM.EDU (Chip Roberson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Argh!  MWC Resource & TEDINFO
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Date: 14 Sep 89 16:18:33 GMT
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First off, let me thank you for replying to my plea for help.
Net-People like you have made the difference between my ST
being a real machine or just a piece of hardware!  Thanks.

In article <8909141428.AA25595@cory.Berkeley.EDU> you write:
>Chip,
>You have the right idea, 

Well in one way that's reassuring to me, while disappointing that the
solution isn't readily apparent and easy to acquire.

>but you need to do the following:
>
>Buffer the text with blanks equal to the # of "X"'s (which I
>assume are ALT-X's), and then place an @ at the start of the

Yes, the X's are ALT-X's.  There are 20 of them.

>buffered text. _You won't be able to see the @ but it's there!_.

Ok, I got into WMC's Resource and first typed in 20 spaces, then
moved to the first character postion (in front of those 20 spaces)
and inserted an @-sign.  When I inserted the @, the spaces
were no longer visible (just underbars).

I saved the new .rsc and decompiled it to look at the components
in textual form.  The @ + 20 spaces were there, though when it
decompiled, all of the CNAMEs for my edit fields had been changed
to really helpful names like FTXT_27A!

>Ok, the @ ensures you start on the left of the field before
>the user enters anything (and it's there, trust me), the blanks
>give space for the user to enter something!

I loaded the .rsc, that I had just built using Resource, into my program
and tried to edit the form.  The cursor cursor was at the beginning
of the field as you predicted and I could type in 20 characters of text.
HOWEVER, the new characters did not replace the underbars but instead
merged with them.  So I get R's that look like funny B's and A's that
look like sick 8's.  

>Try it, it should work if you do it _exactly_ like that and don't
>worry about not being able to see the @, ok?

Well, I think I have followed your instructions to the letter (almost
literally) and it's almost there, but asthetically unpleasing.  Have
I missed something?

>-- 
>--Kenneth "kens" Soohoo			(soohoo@cory.Berkeley.Edu)
>  Atari Hacker (Atari's Hacker...)
>  "It could be worse, you could get hit by a bus..."
>  My opinions are my OWN, _not_ necessarily Atari's. But "hey", who knows?

-c
Chip Roberson	(csrobe@cs.wm.edu)