Can anyone suggest a reasonable way to do in-place text editing on a pane that mixes graphics and text (output-pane)? Obviously, I can use gp:draw-string and build code to handle all keyboard input explicitly. Just wondering if I'm missing a cheat (e.g. something like stealing the editing functionality from capi:multi-line-text-input-pane and somehow using it on an output pane?, inherit from something?, fake out capi:contain (how?) and use a capi widget?). thanx pt
Hello Paul, | Can anyone suggest a reasonable way to do in-place text editing on a | pane that mixes graphics and text (output-pane)? Obviously, I can use | gp:draw-string and build code to handle all keyboard input explicitly. | Just wondering if I'm missing a cheat (e.g. something like stealing the | editing functionality from capi:multi-line-text-input-pane and somehow | using it on an output pane?, inherit from something?, fake out | capi:contain (how?) and use a capi widget?). That is rather tedious to handle all input in a pane mixing graphics and text. I would suggest a floating capi:editor-pane over a pinboard layout. You would draw both graphics and text on the layout directly, but reposition the editor-pane to perform in-place editing. For example, have a look at YGrid sources on my Web site. You can probably use an instance of text-input-pane or its subclass, but it provides less flexibility in event handling. So I do not recommend that. -- Sincerely, Dmitri Ivanov www.aha.ru/~divanov