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Article #194Multple views of a Text object
From: Steven T. Abell
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 06:55
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 06:55
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I'm trying to display the same text in multiple views. Unfortunately, Text is a subclass of View, not something that projects into a View. Fortunately, the Concepts manual says that Text can be displayed in multiple views. Unfortunately, neither Concepts nor Reference say how to do this (at least, I haven't found it after about 10 hours of looking). I've tried copying various pointers and things inside Text using the *evil* @defs technique. So I have multiple Text objects that point at a lot of the same stuff. The other Text objects seem to know that *something* is there (the cursor can be moved out of the upper left corner), but they won't display anything when sent a "display" message, and my app crashes without diagnostics when I try to type into any but the original Text view. Is there some slick way to do this? If not, is there some grubby way to do this? Thanks, Steve abell@netcom.com
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!decwrl!netcomsv!mork!abell From: abell@netcom.com (Steven T. Abell) Subject: Multple views of a Text object Message-ID: <+hgma1a.abell@netcom.com> Date: Thu, 23 Jul 92 06:55:12 GMT Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest) Summary: Programmer trying to do something obscure Keywords: Text multiple views Lines: 25