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From: bskendig@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Brian Kendig)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: The Eternal Question (Using TextEdit with HyperCard)
Message-ID: <11887@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Date: 3 Dec 89 03:18:59 GMT
References: <11881@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> <36956@apple.Apple.COM>
Reply-To: bskendig@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Brian Kendig)
Organization: Systems Engineering, NASA Space Station Freedom Project
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Good points; let me just clarify a few things I said:

In article <36956@apple.Apple.COM> stadler@Apple.COM (Andy Stadler) writes:
>In article <11881@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> bskendig@phoenix.Princeton.EDU
> (Brian Kendig) writes:
>
>> First difficulty - how do I coerce TextEdit to show the more than 32k
>> and still allow for natural scrolling?  (This is where the 'Eternal
>> Question' bit comes into play - I imagine that plenty of people have
>> asked this before!)  If anyone has any code that would do this, or any
>> suggestions on the matter, believe me, I'm all ears.  I know it's
>> possible - word processors do this kind of thing naturally.
>
>Nope.  WP's don't use TextEdit.  TE is not, and can't be modified to be,
>capable of > 32k of text.

Is there any code out there to show me how to 'simulate' TextEdit,
then, for a large amount of text?  This doesn't sound like child's
play...

>> Also, if you happen to come up with another idea of how
>> I could go about this whole business of displaying large amounts of
>> text, please do suggest them!
>
>A field with >32k of text is A LOT to read.  I strongly suggest you look
>over the design, and the division of information.  Maybe you're trying to
>put too much on one card.

I need to be able to display all of the text in one place.  Also,
here's an added curve ball to the entire plan that I had forgotten
about originally: It would be dandy, and indeed necessary, to have
some sort of search function implemented in the window, so that the
user could jump to the next section heading or back to any reference
in the text.  Again, I'm not sure how I'd go about this.

The text involved here is indeed read-only; I had overlooked that!
This makes life a *little*, if not greatly, easier.

Keep your suggestions coming!

     << Brian >>

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