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Topic: New features for utility authors (Read 1675 times)
Malcolm Guest
Re: New features for utility authors
« Reply #8 on: Mar 28th, 2011, 9:17pm »
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Has my suggestion of inserting multiple lines in one 'chunk' made it unnecessary to disable redrawing, and therefore unnecessary to display the hourglass?
It is quite possible that it may but I am not sure yet. To retrieve a multi-lined block the clipboard is the only way I could see to do it, or is there another way? I was getting a line at a time and so inserting only a line at a time or some blank lines for formatting.
To retrieve a multi-lined block the clipboard is the only way I could see to do it, or is there another way?
Why would you want to retrieve a multi-lined block? Reading lines (using EM_GETLINE) doesn't result in scrolling or any other display disturbance, so there shouldn't be any issue with doing that one line at a time.
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I was getting a line at a time and so inserting only a line at a time or some blank lines for formatting.
Obviously I don't know what your code is doing, but I can't see why reading lines one-at-a-time should imply also inserting them individually.
The Windows Constants utility is a good example to follow. The entire program is read one line at a time, but the constant declarations are inserted in one block using WM_PASTE.
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