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From: wjs@fred.cs.washington.edu (William Shipley)
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Subject: Re: Anybody got a scrolling non-text view?
Summary: ignore the scrolling
Keywords: music scrollview text
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Date: 29 Nov 89 04:11:39 GMT
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In article <30423@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> sl150040@silver.bacs.indiana.edu (Eric J. Isaacson) writes:
>We need to get some rudimentary music graphics going and would like to use
>Sonata font (sensible enough, I should think).  Before I go and create a
>custom scrolling object that allows PS font characters to be overlayed
>atop each other, has anyone created something like this they'd be
>willing to share?

I've created a custom view that scrolls, and based on my experience it SOUNDS
like you're asking the wrong question.

That is, you should be creating a subclass of view that displays Sonata
characters as you please, and then put that view in a ClipView via the
class's setDocView method.

This gives you scrollbars and scrolling on your view for free.

-william shipley
next guru wanna-be

PS: The view I scrolled displayed a dungeon.  Yes, you guessed it, I'm writing
a graphical nethack for the NeXT.  See it Summer '90.