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awesomej01

Sat May 01, 2004 7:04 pm


making a scrollbar

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I 'm makin a word processor for my final project in computer science and my teacher said we can't use GUI.  As you all know that in word processors you have scrollbars.  I was just wondering if anyone can give me some suggestions on how to make a vertical scroll bar that allows you to scroll up and down to read your text without using GUI.


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Delos

Sat May 01, 2004 7:06 pm



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setscreen ("text")

:D:D

Sorry...that was a bad joke.

Umm...well, look up a bit on Mouse. commands, arrays, and hell, even processes.

That and basic drawing commands.   Like Draw. commands.


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Paul

Sat May 01, 2004 7:12 pm



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setscreen ("graphics: max; 2000")


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Tony

Sat May 01, 2004 9:03 pm



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:? scroll bar is GUI... seeing as its a graphical user interface :roll: So if you're not allowerd to draw any interfaces, what you could do is have keyboard scrolling... such as with pgUp/pgDown keys


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Cervantes

Sun May 02, 2004 4:16 am



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glad you remembered that trick paul :)
i suppose the best way to use it would be like so


var numberofpages := 3
const pixelsperpage := 500
var screenheight := numberofpages * pixelsperpage
setscreen ("graphics:max," + intstr (screenheight)) %this line would have to be inside the main loop
put "random text so that the prog actually loads a bit"