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The tutorial on View programming that I am planning will not get into
the capabilities of the Forms subsystem. So, it is outside the scope of
what i am planning. I don't know the answer to Erik's question,
unfortunately.
Stan
J. Stanley Warford
Professor of Computer Science
Pepperdine University
Malibu, CA 90263
Stan.Warford{([at]})nowhere.xy
310-506-4332
On Thursday, August 28, 2003, at 09:04 AM, Douglas G. Danforth wrote:
> Folks,
>
> Without answering Erik's question (below) I would say this is
> definitely an area where the documentation needs extension. The
> general question is: How can a form that is created 'by hand' be
> reproduced under program control (with exact positions of elements
> specified)?
>
> Stan (Warford) does this question fall within your view programming
> efforts?
>
> -Doug
>
> Erik Spaans wrote:
>> Hello BlackBox,
>> A newby question. I have created a form with the forms editor. I want
>> to add
>> a piece of text to the form. This text should be variable, i.e.
>> depending on
>> when and how the form is started it will display different texts.
>> I do not want to use a edit or text field as this appears 'embossed'
>> (dented).
>> I tried using a caption without an associated text field and linking
>> it to a
>> variable in the underlying module, but that did not work. It does not
>> change
>> the caption text. Adding a guard and setting par.label did not work
>> either.
>> Alternatively I created a textview. But how to insert this in the
>> form? And
>> at a specified position? The documentation says that the module does
>> not
>> know anything about the form. Somehow a textobject should be inserted
>> in the
>> form (via the forms editor) and linked to a textview variable in the
>> underlying module. How?
>> Any help is welcome.
>> Erik
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