resnick@cogsci.uiuc.edu (Pete Resnick) (09/11/90)
I am beginning a programming project in which I want a split text window: that is, I want a window with two scrollable regions (two thumb controls) into which text will be typed. Just for your info, the text will be added to each region such that you will not be able to edit the lines above you, though you will be able to copy from them and see them by scrolling up. The only editing you will be able to do is typing characters, return, backspace, and pasting characters. What would be the simplist way to implement this? The Window Manager only provides one thumb control and no obvious way to implement two independent scrolling regions. There is also nothing obvious in TE, and I do not want most of TE's editing features. Any suggestions appreciated. pr -- Pete Resnick (...so what is a mojo, and why would one be rising?) Graduate assistant - Philosophy Department, Gregory Hall, UIUC System manager - Cognitive Science Group, Beckman Institute, UIUC Internet/ARPAnet/EDUnet : resnick@cogsci.uiuc.edu BITNET (if no other way) : FREE0285@UIUCVMD
stevec@Apple.COM (Steve Christensen) (09/12/90)
resnick@cogsci.uiuc.edu (Pete Resnick) writes: >I am beginning a programming project in which I want a split text window: >that is, I want a window with two scrollable regions (two thumb controls) >into which text will be typed. Just for your info, the text will be added >to each region such that you will not be able to edit the lines above you, >though you will be able to copy from them and see them by scrolling up. The >only editing you will be able to do is typing characters, return, backspace, >and pasting characters. > >What would be the simplist way to implement this? The Window Manager only >provides one thumb control and no obvious way to implement two independent >scrolling regions. There is also nothing obvious in TE, and I do not want >most of TE's editing features. The Window Manager just provides the windowing support. What you do within a window is up to you. To implement a split window, you can just draw a line in the middle of the window and put a scrollbar in each section. Then clicking on a particular scrollbar will scroll that section up or down. If you wanted to use TextEdit to handle all the text manipulation, you could also setup a couple of TextEdit records--one for each section--and do the copies and pastes into the currently active window section. steve -- ______________________________________________________________________________ Steve Christensen Internet: stevec@goofy.apple.com Apple Computer, Inc. AppleLink: STEVEC 20525 Mariani Ave, MS 81-CS CompuServe: 76174,1712 Cupertino, CA 95014 "You just contradicted me." "No I didn't." ______________________________________________________________________________