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Stan:
please feel free to look at my Gr examples, where I am showing how to
iterate over content of a Form or a Text. This goes beyond reading
the Ascii data from a text. I am actually retrieving entire views
from the composite containers such as Forms, and then acting on the
retrieved views.
My examples are not as nice and succint as they could have been,
but at least well commented. Please feel free to extract the essence
and use in your tutorial, if appropriate. A reference to my work would
be welcome.
Hope this will help to improve BB documentation.
Wojtek Skulski skulski{([at]})nowhere.xy
On Thu, 28 Aug 2003, Stan Warford wrote:
> 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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