RE: [V2d-discuss] First cut applications chapter complete!

[Glenn M. <gle...@op...>]

Hi Peter,

> Frequently, there are a number of occasions when a few lines 
> of code are needed. I am thinking of examples like the following:
> 
> feature
>    screen: EV_SCREEN
>    message: EV_INFORMATION_DIALOG
>    initialize is
>       do
>          create screen
>          create message.make_with_text("Width = " + 
> 				screen.width.out + "; height = 
> " + screen.height.out)
>          message.show
>       end
> 
> 
> This is to demonstrate how to identify screen width and 
> height and illustrates the use of these quantities.
> 
> It would be nice if we had a convention to paste this code 
> into the default ev_application main_window. It immediately 
> answers the question "How do I identify the screen width and 
> height?" without clutter and illustrates the use of these parameters.

I'm not sure I know what you mean. Are you saying you just want to show
these lines. If so I have been using the InlineEiffelCode style to show
a "snippet" of code without writing a full example around it.

Thanks.
Glenn.