DrawString equivalent?

[Ken Ray]

Yeah, I'd set it up ahead of time by either (a) creating a label field that
was hidden and just duplicating it and positioning it, or most likely (b)
set the templateField to match what I needed and then just "create" a field
that had all the right properties from the get-go.

Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software
Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/

----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Gaskin" <ambassador at fourthworld.com>
To: <metacard at lists.runrev.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 05, 2003 8:10 PM
Subject: Re: DrawString equivalent?


> RCS wrote:
>
> > Does anyone know of a way to quickly draw text on the screen without
> > creating an object? I am thinking of the old Macintosh ToolBox
'DrawString"
> > function (or 'textBox') that allowed you to just draw a text string
anywhere
> > on the screen. I would like to use this for information 'on the fly',
and
> > the circumstances would be different enough that there could not be an
> > existing object that I could use (i.e. a field, button, etc.)....
>
> You could write an external, but then you have to do it for each platform.
>
> If you lock messages and the screen then creating a field on the fly
should
> be pretty quick.
>
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