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From: Lawson.English@p88.f15.n300.z1.fidonet.org (Lawson English)
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Subject: Help Programming "Help"
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Date: 6 Jan 91 16:26:06 GMT
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Chuck Weinstock writes in a message to All

CW>  What I'm after is the style of help that shows two windows side-by-side,

CW> both scrollable, with an index in the left window, and text in 
CW> the right window, but any reasonable facility would be fin

I believe that MacTutor has published some code on this: as I recall, the 
trick
was to have a STR# with the index to the TEXT resource *IN FRONT OF* the 
string
that would show up on the left side. Simply strip off the number, convert it
StrToNum <whatever> and put into an array. Then whenever the List Manager 
returns
a selection, GetResource('TEXT", index) and display it in the righthand list.

Str# index 1: "#3546#Tommy"
Str# index 2: "#5548#Betty"


TEXT 3546:  "Tommy is well known for being strange"
TEXT 5548:  "Betty is properly called 'Elisabeth'"


and so on...


Lawson
 

 

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