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From: alistair@microsoft.UUCP (Alistair BANKS)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.programmer
Subject: Re: Help with editing
Message-ID: <56008@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 21 Jul 90 21:44:37 GMT
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OS/2 1.2 & beyond contains a new PM class called MLE, Multi-Line Edit.

This is the control class which the PM Editor in os/2 1.2 uses, with
style bits indicating scroll bars.

So the editor is really just a regular window, with a simple
menu and the main window is just an instance of MLE.

MLE allows for a choice of foreground and background colours,
but only on a per-window basis, not per-word.

MLE allows full cut and paste operations, with keyboard and
mouse.

Sadly, I cannot offer the sourc code to MLE as a working example
but would ask that if MLE is not sufficient for your purposes,
that you realise that a PM mouse message only returns the
position, and that you have to relate that position to any
text character using your own algorithms - there really cannot
be a general solution for all arbitary GPI based text output!

Alistair Banks
OS/2 Group
Microsoft