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02/10/1998 09:02:12
Dragan Nedeljkovich (Online)
Now officially retired
Zrenjanin, Serbia
 
 
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Coding, syntax & commands
Title:
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00142123
Message ID:
00143182
Views:
39
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>>>Won't work with proportional fonts...
>>
>>Yeah, but you don't have exacting control over messages using MESSAGEBOX -or- you could use FONTMETRICS to finely center it....soooo...this was a kludge solution that works better than nothing :-)
>
>Yeah, sometimes I miss good ol' DOS for it's simplicity.

Don't tell me. I was playing with an alternative to MessageBox for weeks (DOS version took just a few hours), and all it had was a n editbox and a commandbutton group. Sizing them to fit was a pain (you may find it used in VPasns - the solitaire game I've sent), and guessing (read as "trying to calculate") the size of the editbox once it receives its text was the worst. I decided I could live with one extra line at the end, because the other choice was more extra lines or fewer lines than needed. The exact number of lines was impossible to get.

back to same old

the first online autobiography, unfinished by design
What, me reckless? I'm full of recks!
Balkans, eh? Count them.
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