Windows and Text resources.

[Chris Cromer]

Ok the question I have is, I have a window set up and it works just fine with the Display statement. The thing is though I would rather use a text resource to display the text that should be in the window. This would make it a little easier to make windows if it used the text resources instead of the Display command. I don't seem to know how to make it use the text from the text resource which has been bugging me.

[Chris Cromer]

Well I have figured out how to access the text resources and then print them in the message box. The only thing is I don't know how to dispose of the window once I am done with it, it just stays on the screen and won't go away. I have tried WindowDispose but I can't seem to get it to work.

[Brian Provinciano]

I've made a little demo for you of an About Box. To test it, download it:
http://www.bripro.com/scistudio/files/wndtest.zip

I updated the Event class with a getEvent().
I updated the Control class.
I created an Icon control from the Control class.
I create the Window, draw the Icon/text
I wait for an event.
I destroy the window.

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(ps. Get SCI Studio 2.0.4.109 04/23/2002)

[robingravel]

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Robin Gravel

[Brian Provinciano]

Whoops. It's actually at:
http://www.bripro.com/scistudio/files/wnddemo.zip

[Chris Cromer]

Thanks this should hopefully help me out with the windows.

[Chris Cromer]

Am I correct in thinking that the controls can be used to either display a view in the message window and to display text buttons in the window?

[Brian Provinciano]

The control classes have a "type" property. If the type is 1, it's a button (text with a border), if it's 4, it's an icon (a view), 6 is a list box, and so on. Check out the FreeSCI docs for more info, there's a whole page on it.

[Chris Cromer]

Ok, thanks. I will check out the FreeSCI page to learn more about this stuff.