Re: [Ql-Users] Csize in Easyptr/Easymenu

2013-12-17 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
Hi, Not in basic? That's a pity. Not that I'm aware of. I don't know Easyptr, so I might be proven wrong, but at least in QPTR, the drawing routines don't provide for a mechanism to come back to basic to draw (parts of) the window. Unfortunately, s*basic doesn't provide for a way to call a

Re: [Ql-Users] Csize in Easyptr/Easymenu

2013-12-17 Thread François Van Emelen
tobias.froesc...@t-online.de schreef op 17/12/2013 18:15: Francois, the only objects in a window definition actually accepting a CSIZE parameter are Information Objects (And this is not an EasyPtr restriction, but rather one of the Window Manager). Maybe because they are intended as titles and

Re: [Ql-Users] Csize in Easyptr/Easymenu

2013-12-17 Thread Tobias Fröschle
Francois, on second (or third...) thought (and a close reading of the EasyPtr Manual), you might (maybe) be able to directly draw into an application menu item by MWINDOW #x, * 65536 + where is the number of the application menu item number from top left (row-wise, starting at 1) to bottom

Re: [Ql-Users] Csize in Easyptr/Easymenu

2013-12-17 Thread François Van Emelen
Wolfgang Lenerz schreef op 17/12/2013 22:12: Hi, (And this is not an EasyPtr restriction, but rather one of the Window Manager). Technically it's a limitation of the standard menu drawing routine wm.mdraw (vector $20). You could, conceivably, write your own menu drawing routine in assembler

Re: [Ql-Users] Csize in Easyptr/Easymenu

2013-12-17 Thread nor...@dunbar-it.co.uk
Good point! Well made! Wish I'd thought of that! Cheers, Norm. Sent from my HTC - Reply message - From: "Wolfgang Lenerz" To: Subject: [Ql-Users] Csize in Easyptr/Easymenu Date: Tue, Dec 17, 2013 21:12 Hi, Wouldn't it be better to do the link only each time the wdw is moved or resize

Re: [Ql-Users] Csize in Easyptr/Easymenu

2013-12-17 Thread Wolfgang Lenerz
Hi, (And this is not an EasyPtr restriction, but rather one of the Window Manager). Technically it's a limitation of the standard menu drawing routine wm.mdraw (vector $20). You could, conceivably, write your own menu drawing routine in assembler (but not in basic) to draw text of any csize

Re: [Ql-Users] Csize in Easyptr/Easymenu

2013-12-17 Thread tobias.froesc...@t-online.de
Francois, the only objects in a window definition actually accepting a CSIZE parameter are Information Objects (And this is not an EasyPtr restriction, but rather one of the Window Manager). Maybe because they are intended as titles and "other decoration". Unfortunately, Information Objects won

Re: [Ql-Users] Csize in Easyptr/Easymenu

2013-12-17 Thread François Van Emelen
Norman Dunbar schreef op 16/12/2013 21:22: Evening François, On 16/12/13 14:39, François Van Emelen wrote: A question about the use of 'CSIZE' in Easyptr/Easymenu. Can CSIZE be used to have larger characters in an 'application window' created with 'no menu'? Example: Short answer: yes. Long