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From: davids@ucscf.UCSC.EDU (Dave Schreiber)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: 2.0 Console.device questions
Keywords: 2.0 console.device highlighting
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Date: 13 Feb 91 17:51:54 GMT
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I posted a question about this last Friday, but nobody responsed (perhaps
everyone hits `c' when they first log in on Monday morning), so here it
is again:

I'm working on a text-manipulation program that will run under 2.0 (I've
got a 3000 and SAS/C V5.10).  I'd like to impliment drag-highlighting (where
the user ``drags'' the mouse to highlight a block of text, as opposed to the
Notepad way of doing it (double clicking)).  I've noticed that the 2.0 
console.device already uses drag-highlighting as part of its built-in
``Snap''ness.  I'd like to know if it is possible for my program to use this
built-in highlighting (for example, letting the console.device do the
highlighting, but having the program handle deletions of text, etc. itself). 

If it isn't, are there any recommendations on keeping console.device
highlighting and program highlighting separate (I'd like to let my users
use every 2.0 feature possible, which includes the built in Snap)?  Or should
I just resort to the double-clicking method, reserving the ``dragging'' for
when the user wants to paste some bit of text into some other window?

Thanks.

-- 
Dave Schreiber                                    davids@slugmail.ucsc.edu 
                                or (but not both) davids@ucscf.ucsc.edu
"It was fun learning about logic, but I don't see where or when I will ever
use it again."