>At 12:00am -0700 00-04-17, Palm Developer Forum digest wrote:
> >When I define an underlined field and enter text in it, the underlines only
> >appear under each new character as it is entered.
> >
> >In contrast, the built in apps show a complete line of underlines before any
> >text entry takes place.
> >
> >Am I doing something wrong or is there some trick I am missing?
> >
> >Here is my code:
> >
> > FldSetTextHandle(getObject(formP, SOUND_FIELD), soundH);
>//getObject: does
> >FrmGettObjectPtr
> > FldSetSelection(getObject(formP, SOUND_FIELD), 0, StrLen(soundStr));
> > FrmSetFocus(formP, FrmGetObjectIndex(formP, SOUND_FIELD));// Set the
> >insertion point blinking in field
> >
> >Here is my .rcp file entry (PilRC/gcc)
> >
> > FIELD ID SOUND_FIELD AT (80 PREVTOP 90 10) MAXCHARS 12 UNDERLINED FONT 1
> >USABLE
>
>At 12:00am -0700 00-04-19, Palm Developer Forum digest wrote:
> >Subject: re: Underline in forms (must be 11 high)
> >From: "revcom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 06:34:24 +1000
> >X-Message-Number: 90
> >
> >
> >Ole,
> >
> >Thank you very much for your reply to my posting.
> >
> >You are indeed correct, all my fields were 10 in height (perfectly adequate
> >for the font I was using) but not high enough for underlining, obviously.
> >
> >Changing the height to 12 fixed everything.
> >
> >Surely a trap for young players.
> >
> >Attnetion, Palm - this behavious is a little inconsistent isn't it? It
> >should either underline the field always (if >=11) or never underline it.
> >The current behaviour to not underline when drawing the field, but to
> >underline as the text is entered seems inconsistent to me. Is this a bug, or
> >a feature???
Actually a field which isn't tall enough to contain a single line of
text (e.g. height of 10, using the bold font, as per your example) is
invalid. In fact, if you tried to use such a field on a recent debug
ROM (3.1 or later, I believe) you'd get a fatal alert that said
something like "Field.c, Line: 132, Invalid insertion point
position". A confusing message, but one that's triggered by the field
code calculating that zero lines will fit vertically.
Having said that, you're right that there's a minor clipping problem.
When the field is drawn, the underline is correctly clipped, but when
text is drawn, the underline winds up being beneath the bottom of the
field.
-- Ken
Ken Krugler
TransPac Software, Inc.
<http://www.transpac.com>
+1 530-470-9200
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