>MacOS 'TextEdit' is intended for just this kind of thing. It will
>handle line wrapping for instance, which is quite difficult to do
>
> :MacPerl Ÿ:ext:Mac:TextEdit:t:SimpleText.t
>
>which will get you off to a flying start.
I had looked into that, thought it was the master, and then couldn't find a
way to make the output NON-modifiable by the user. I'll jump into the pod
on that one again, but if you know the answer, save me the hair pulling ;)
...
>"MacPerl Power and Ease" (Chapter 14) pages 212/213 will tell you how
>to handle modifications to the MenuBar and create your own Menus.
>Further information is given in the 'pod' which is part of 'Menus.pm'
>and in the examples to be found in ":ext:Mac:Menus:t:". In your
>application you might want to consider doing a Save and Restore for
Yeah, the PTF book was what I was using as my source for GUI junk, but it
only showed me how to add menu's, not wipe out the menu bar, and start
afresh. Eventually, I found pudge's mp3 player app on his site, which had
an example of what I wanted...
>I am not quite clear what you mean by 'redirect STDOUT'. Do you mean
>redirect the keyboard or 'print()' and 'write()' as well? If the
>latter you might look at 'MPEdit.pm' (http://www.afco.demon.co.uk)
>which does just that, or at least provides an alternative to
>'print()' which directs the output to an editable window.
Alan - I didn't see MPEdit.pm on your site, either in the xplatform or
mac-only sections. Ultimately, what I'd like to create is a simple spitup
log window. It's resizable, automatically scrolls, and I can print to it as
if it were a filehandle/pipe. It's not absolutely necessary to redirect
STDOUT - I'd just have to remember to silence STDOUT before passing the app
off.
>If you want to create a window which is re-sizeable with horizontal
>and vertical scrolling, matters get quite complicated. You might want
>to start with something simple in the first instance, and tackle the
>more difficult issues later on as they arise.
Really? Hmmm... I do want the ability to resize...
Thanks for the push in the right direction though...
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