RE: [perl-win32-gui-users] HELP, please, on UpDown control and textfield

[Francesco R. <Fra...@in...>]

Hi Joe.
thanks for replying.

I've moved the declaration of the UpDown control right after the text box,
which helped.
As you say, to avoid the text in the textfield to be messed up
I have to include the
-setbuddy => 0
option.
I tried to include -autobuddy => 0, => 1, and not to include it..
seems to make no difference.
Right now, when I click on the arrows,
all of the text in the textfield is selected,
but the same rows are being displayed.

Incidentally,
I opened GUI.pm and I have different comments than you:

[quote]
     ####################################################################### 
###########################################################################
     # (@)METHOD:new Win32::GUI::UpDown(PARENT, %OPTIONS)
     # Creates a new UpDown object;
     # can also be called as PARENT->AddUpDown(%OPTIONS).
sub new {
     return Win32::GUI->_new(Win32::GUI::constant("WIN32__GUI__UPDOWN", 0), 
@_);
}
[/quote]

instead of
 > It also appears that we cannot set pos, etc during creation
 > (from GUI.pm):
 >
 >
 > ##############################################################
 > #############
 >     # (@)METHOD:new Win32::GUI::UpDown(PARENT, %OPTIONS)
 >     # Creates a new UpDown object;
 >     # can also be called as PARENT->AddUpDown(%OPTIONS).
 >     #
 >     # Class specific B<%OPTIONS> are:
 >     #   -align => left,right
 >     #   -nothousands => 0/1
 >     #   -wrap => 0/1
 >     #   -horizontal => 0/1
 >     #   -autobuddy => 0/1
 >     #   -setbuddy => 0/1
 >     #   -arrowkeys => 0/1

as you said...

The -wrap option seems to control whether the counter associated with the 
up doen control should wrap.
In other wortds, when it was still changing the text to the number, with 
-wrap => 1,
I would get 99..100..0..1 and so on.

At this point it sounds to me like the best I can do is to
make my own Up-Down control
(i.e. two buttons, intercept the clicks on each, and display the 
appropriate lines in the textfield),
but this has the drawback of not letting me put the whole text in the 
textfield, and the user could not
manually select it all....
..unless you have more suggestions,
or anyone knows how to say to a multiline textfield "set line X as the 
first line displayed".

Thanks again,
F.O.R.


At 01:47 PM 9/13/2004 -0400, Frazier, Joe Jr wrote:
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>Joe Frazier, Jr.
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>
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Frazier, Joe Jr
> > Sent: Monday, September 13, 2004 1:30 PM
> > To: 'Francesco Rizzi'; per...@li...
> > Subject: RE: [perl-win32-gui-users] HELP, please, on UpDown
> > control and textfield
> >
> >
> >
> > 1) the UpDown appears to attach to whatever control preceded it
> > 2) I am not 100% sure, but the updown control is used to
> > modifying numberlike thingies, not text.
> > http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-
> > us/cmctl298/html/vbobjupdowncontrol.asp
>
>Forget the last part of the sentence below and the one after it, I was
>being stupid
>
>Also, it appears that -setbuddy =>0 turns off the changing of the text
>field value, BUT it also appears that adding any creation options kills
>the scroll event also.