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From: kevin@msa3b.UUCP (Kevin P. Kleinfelter)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Windows Checkbook Register
Message-ID: <1349@msa3b.UUCP>
Date: 12 Aug 90 21:05:49 GMT
Organization: Management Science America, Inc., Atlanta, GA
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I'm writing a checkbook register program, in order to learn Windows
program.  I'm trying to figure the "Windows style" to do the following:

I've got a checkbook register laid out on the screen in a list box.
I'd like clicking on a row to select the row (i.e. such that hitting
the delete key would delete that row, or Insert would insert a new
row after the selected one). However, I'd like to be able to click on
a column, and then put up an I-beam cursor to permit the user to
edit the selected column.

This means that clicking on the first column in a row could mean
"select the row" or it could mean "put the I-beam cursor in the ffirst
column for editing."

What is the appropriate behavior in cases like this?

-- 
Kevin Kleinfelter @ Dun and Bradstreet Software, Inc (404) 239-2347
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