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From: lwake@runcible.West.Sun.COM (Larry Wake)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.open-look
Subject: Re: Guide & text panes
Message-ID: <1681@west.West.Sun.COM>
Date: 16 May 91 19:33:54 GMT
References: <1750@richsun.cpg.trs.reuter.com> <WARSAW.91May6190039@warsaw.nlm.nih.gov>
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In article <WARSAW.91May6190039@warsaw.nlm.nih.gov> warsaw@nlm.nih.gov writes:
<>>>>> "Jack" == Jack Gidding <jack@richsun.cpg.trs.reuter.com> writes:
<
<	Jack> 1) When I quit the application(which uses a text pane), a
<	Jack> notice box comes up 	and asks to save or discard the edits.
<	Jack> I would like to stop this from 	happening. The text pane
<	Jack> is read-only and there is no real reason to 	save the
<	Jack> output.  Is there a way to stop this notifier box?
<
<I always to a textsw_reset() on the pane before destroying it. Works
<for me -- I no longer get those messages on my read-only panes.

You can also set the attribute TEXTSW_IGNORE_LIMIT to TEXTSW_INFINITY
when you create the text subwindow (or any other time, really).
--
Larry Wake, Sun Microsystems, Salusa Secundus field office
(larry.wake@west.sun.com)
"He's bad... but he'll die.  So I like it!"