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From: paul@cacilj.UUCP (Paul Close)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: How do I add a window to a form?
Message-ID: <1360@cacilj.UUCP>
Date: 7 Jan 90 18:07:00 GMT
Reply-To: paul@cacilj.UUCP (Paul Close)
Organization: CACI Products Company, La Jolla, CA
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I'm trying to add a scrollbar (slider) to allow a long text description to be
partially displayed in a form.  I've written several programs using forms, but
windows are new to me.  I can figure out a kludgey way to superimpose a
window over my form, but that's about it.  I'm looking for something like the
item selector, where a scrolling window peacefully co-exists within the form.

Even if I could kludge together something that *looked* good, I'm not clear
on how to use it once it is created.  I need to use form_do to read the form,
but also need evnt_... to read the window.  How can I do both?  Do (can) I use
the G_PROGDEF type briefly mentioned in the MWC docs?  If so, how?

Finally, I can't find any functions for writing into windows.  Do I just write
to the screen inside the window?  It seems like a window is just a way of
managing a mini-screen.  I was hoping there was an object that would allow for
scrolling fields.  I also wonder about all the "home-brewed" windows I see in
applications.  They look like GEM windows, but have more buttons and fields
than GEM windows.  Is there a "window toolkit" buried in the AES or VDI
somewhere?

Questions, questions, questions.  Thanks to those who reply,
-- 
Paul Close	paul@cacilj.CTS.COM 	...!{uunet, ucsd, crash}!cacilj!paul

    The Obi-wan Kenobi method:  "Use the Source, Luke"	-Jim Fulton