Bob Spelten writes:
What are these popup help routines? They sound interesting.
It is an example routine, how to make Hint windows popup in EasyPtr
programs.
It was described in QL Today volume 10, issue 3.
It was on one of the QLT disks and can also be found on Per's site.
(http://www.witteware.com/knoware/)
Sorry, the site is currently down while I search for a cheaper host.
My articles Taking a Hint (pop-up hints and reading lines longer than
can be displayed in a regular grid), and Pox (using pop-up windows
larger than, or outside, the main program outline) were intended to
demonstrate that much of the stuff weve become accustomed to in modern
mainstream programs are relatively easily achievable on QL systems
too. Most of the techniques used wont be news for many of the
contributors to this thread. Anyone else can simply use and modify the
S*Basic routines listed.
An upcoming article (Ive been told it will appear in the next QLT),
Resz, is about interactive resizing of windows It was inspired by
Ralf Reköndt's comment on this list: "..how nice [it would be] to use
the Windows facility of changing a window size in the lower right edge
of a window.." - and the subsequent discussion.
My demo in the latter article shows up an annoying (lack of?) feature
in ptrgen that it doesnt recognise that a mouse button is pressed when
it initialises: it assumes buttons are up :o(
And while we are at it: It would be great if ptrgen would be extended
to allow registering a keystroke modifier, such as ALT, CTRL and SHIFT
together with a mousebutton press. A couple of spare bits in the
pointer record might be available for this? That would allow mass
selects and toggles, as in Windows etc.
Thanks to Dilwyn and others for the brief demo on using scrollbars!
Per
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