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Scrollable log window with colour text [message #2539]

Mon, 17 April 2006 08:38

lundman
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Registered: March 2006
Location: Tokyo

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Rather than thread-jacking my old... thread.. I thought I would start afresh on this question.

If you imagine a FTP client, I want a window where I can throw the log output, and other garbage returned from the other end, into and have it scroll as it fills up. But I would like to be able to have colour text so I can do an ANSI->QTF convert.

I have been trying RichTextView, which seems to be the simplest of the Rich text categories, but I have having some issues.

[1]
The only way so far to add another line of text at the "bottom" is to re-assign the entire contents.

p = ~p + str;

[2]
Automatically scroll so latest line is in view. So far this has not been possible with RichTextView, but, I found that if I tag on "[:END:]&" to my text, I can use GotoLabel("END", false). Yeah, not pretty.

Is there no better way? It would be nicer to use something like DocEdit with its .Insert() and SetCursor() but it doesn't do colour text.

I tried RichEdit as suggested, but found it had the same issues as mentioned here.

Advice please, production stopped here Smile

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