At 9:36 -0700 1/30/02, Scott Raney wrote: >Only if you're developing it for monkeys or people with keyboards that >have no spacebars. I can't think of any reasonable need for this >"feature" otherwise. If a word needs to break in the middle, even a >"moderately-featured" editor is going to have to hyphenate, or have >the user do it manually, rather than just break the word anywhere.
Or if you're editing non-natural language text streams. Don't think "words". Again, see SimpleText (a "moderately-featured" editor) for how its supposed to work. BBEdit (a *very* well featured editor) also does this correctly if you have Soft Wrap turned on. OS X TextEdit (A Cocoa app) behaves correctly. That implies to me that this behavior should come for free with TE/WASTE (pre-X) or the Cocoa text rendering system. Further, REALBasic (version 3.5.1 on Mac OS X) text fields also behave properly. At 9:36 -0700 1/30/02, Scott Raney wrote: > Your odds of getting this feature implemented are pretty >much dependent on couching your request in these terms. > Regards, > Scott A Mac user will expect an editor to behave similarly to one of the above three programs. A Unix user used to NEdit or jEdit (not to mention vi or emacs!) will expect the same behavior. I really don't care about Windows users, but my guess is that if jEdit and NEdit act like this, then the basic editors (Notepad?) on Windows do as well. I think those are pretty compelling reasons to fix this behavior. I was pretty disappointed when I ran up against this limitation. I'm fairly sure it wasn't a problem in HyperCard, since the text fields in HC used the Toolbox TE, but its been 8 years since I've done any HC development. Brent -- Brent Neal Geek of all Trades "Specialization is for insects" -- Robert A. Heinlein _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
