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Re: More help for a newbie

On 27/8/03 15:29, "Laurence Harris" <email@hidden> wrote:

> On 8/27/03 1:40 PM, Diego Rey didst favor us with:
>
>> On 27/8/03 14:16, "Pietrzak, Bryan" <email@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> Hi again. My platform of choice will be MacOS 9 with carbonlib 1.6
>> installed.
>>
>> Now my problem is that I need one control that supports all the points I
>> wrote together. The most important one being the first one, so I'll give a
>> look at MacTextEditor.h. I suppose that if that doesn't mean my case I'll
>> go for creating a text displayer myself someway.
>
> If I understand what you're doing correctly, the text you wish to display is
> not normal "letter to mom" text and does wrap. Is that correct? If so, I'd
> definitely use a list. Create an edit text control over a row when you want
> to let the user edit the text in a line.

Thanks for the tip. I'll try to see if this solution can fit my needs.

>>
>> Now I was wondering why it is that the Controls Manager Reference tells me
>> that most of the times you create a custom control when you need sliders.
>> Can't you make a text displaying control with CDEFs?
>>
> Okay, I just have to ask why you want to go to that much trouble for
> something that runs in Mac OS 9? Personally, if I were just getting started
> in Mac software development, I wouldn't spend any time figuring out Mac OS
> 9-specific techniques to do anything. Learn how to code for Mac OS X
> instead. Be aware the CarbonLib was a bridge technology which hasn't been
> updated in a long time. Lots of stuff you can do in Mac OS X is not
> available to applications running in Mac OS 9 with CarbonLib, especially all
> the stuff introduce in Jaguar and later. Just my $0.02.

Well yeah, my idea is to switch to OS X development in the future, but for
the time being I don't have availability of a Mac with OS X (not one that
can run it anyway). Whatever I do with carbon shouldn't be too hard to port
to OS X from what I've read, so it's not a big problem anyway.

When I get the chance of running OS X I will surely try to port my current
project to it.

Diego Rey
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