>Hi all,
>
>I am new and this is my first post. I have not explored much so this is all default formating and signature ... for now.
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>I tried searching for a way to further improve my output window and found nothing.
>
>I use a OutWin.prg to generate an alternative output window so that I can Ctrl-Tab between edit/browser windows and the output window. This is the code:
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> define window output from 0,0 to 10,10 title 'Output' system noclose float grow ZOOM
> activate window output
> ZOOM WINDOW output MAX
>
>I would love to be able to select and copy text from the output window! I can't seem to find any attribute of the window that will allow that. Any ideas?
>
>Thanks!
Hi Dale,
The problem is is that the window you are defining doesn't "hold" anything... it is just outputting text to the screen (albeit in a window) as if using ? command.

You need to create a text file or a table field like a memo field to contain the output. Then you can select it and copy, paste, etc. It would be much easier to create this in a form but in the spirit of your code I tried this and it worked:

CREATE CURSOR test (txt M)
APPEND BLANK
define window output from 0,0 to 10,10 title 'Output' system noclose float grow ZOOM 
*!*	activate window output
ZOOM WINDOW output MAX
MODIFY MEMO txt WINDOW output

All I am doing is creating a temporary cursor, adding a blank record, you can add text to the field, cut, copy, paste, etc.

However, if I understand what you are doing, this may suit you a little better:

SET PRINTER TO test.txt additive
SET PRINTER on
?"test"
?"test2"
SET PRINTER off
SET PRINTER to

when you want to look and manipulate the output do the following:

define window output from 0,0 to 10,10 title 'Output' system noclose float grow ZOOM 
MODIFY FILE test.txt WINDOW output

Hope this helps,
Ed