Re: adding text

From: Douglas G. Danforth <"Douglas>
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 12:04:06 -0400

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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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