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From: len@mel.dit.csiro.au (Len Makin)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Text widget quick question
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Date: 31 Oct 90 05:43:44 GMT
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In article <6500@uceng.UC.EDU>, schriste@uceng.UC.EDU (Steven V.
Christensen) writes:

|>	I have an application which wishes to communicate periodic
|>status/output messages (one liners) to the user. Right now there
|>is an asciiTextWidget whose text I can change, add, etc.
|>
|>	The functionality I desire and cannot seem to get is this:
|>
|>	1) If there are fewer lines of output than there is space on
|>	   the text widget display, the text should start at the top,
|>	   and no vertical scrollbar should be present.

*textFile*type:                 file
*textFile*string:               /var/len/project/it/xo.hlp
*textFile*scrollVertical:       whenNeeded         <<<<YOU NEED THIS

|>	3) I prefer the cursor to be invisible, but that isn't really
|>	   a major problem.

*textFile*displayCaret:         False               <<<<AND THIS
|>Steven V. Christensen
|>U.C. College of Eng.
|>schriste@uceng.uc.edu
|>For the adventurous: svc@elf0.uucp
                                     
Len Makin
Monash University College Gippsland
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