I need a standard single line text entry widget

Tim Rowledge tim at sumeru.stanford.edu
Tue Apr 9 20:28:25 UTC 2002


Ned Konz <ned at bike-nomad.com> is claimed by the authorities to have written:


> You can try this (lifted from MessageNames) in a Workspace:
> 
> plugTextMor _ PluggableTextMorph on: nil "your model here"
> 					text: nil accept: nil   "your model selectors here"
> 					readSelection: nil menu: nil.    "your model selectors here"
> 	plugTextMor extent: 144 at 22.
> 	plugTextMor setProperty: #alwaysAccept toValue: true.
> 	plugTextMor askBeforeDiscardingEdits: false.
> 	plugTextMor acceptOnCR: true.
> 	plugTextMor setTextColor: Color brown.
> 	plugTextMor vResizing: #spaceFill; hResizing: #spaceFill.
> 	plugTextMor hideScrollBarIndefinitely.
> 	plugTextMor setTextMorphToSelectAllOnMouseEnter.
> plugTextMor openInHand.
Good Grief. People are expected to actually be able to work this out? I
suppose folks that have done as much morphic hacking as ned might find
it possible to keep track of but really, isn't this getting a little
complex?

tim
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