Re: Immediate scrolling text in a dialog box

> Hi, I'm a student trying to write a program to control an automated machine.

> I want to post text into what is for the moment an editbox,
> and I want the text to continue automatically to the next line
> .to scroll vertically.

> I would put the text into a string, but I don't know how to make it
> continue onto the next line.

Try a multi line list box,
[LISTBOX x y w h
    (+style LBS_MULTILINE ) ]

Make it taller than 1 line

Convert your message to text and
put a crlf between lines ( swift forth has +crlf function )

Then add it to the list box end -
possibly by getting the text currently in the list box, adding the new text
and putting the total new text back in the list box

You can also add a vertical scroll bar to the list box by adding another style
to the list box,

LBS_VSCROLL

This is all I recall this late at night - ask if you need more details

Warren Heath

> Hi, I'm a student trying to write a program to control an automated machine.
>
> I want to post text into what is for the moment an editbox, and I want
> the text to continue automatically to the next line. Thus, when a
> function is performed, the text confirmation is written into this
> field and displayed in the dialog box. In effect, the text will
> continue as certain commands are executed, and thus the box will need
> to scroll vertically.
>
> The current situation is that one line of text is displayed and then
> replaced by the following line of text. I want this text to continue
> down the screen...
>
> I would put the text into a string, but I don't know how to make it
> continue onto the next line.
> The only solution I can really come up with is to load the text into
> an ACSII buffer each time that a new action is performed, and then
> either paste that directly into the editbox or output it to a text
> file and display that text file in the box. I would prefer the latter
> of these two solutions, but I am not sure how I would do this. I read
> something about a "Daily log" viewer, but I was not sure how I would
> get that into the area of my editbox...
>
> Any help is greatly appreciated!
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Anthony Senerchia
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