Basic Question: Text Field wrapping

[Brent Neal]

>On 30/1/02 5:18 pm, Brent Neal <brent at baton.phys.lsu.edu> wrote:
>
>>>  Only if you're developing it for monkeys or people with keyboards that
>>>  have no spacebars.  I can't think of any reasonable need for this
>>>  "feature" otherwise.  If a word needs to break in the middle, even a
>>>  "moderately-featured" editor is going to have to hyphenate, or have
>>>  the user do it manually, rather than just break the word anywhere.
>>
>>  Or if you're editing non-natural language text streams. Don't think
>>  "words".  Again, see SimpleText (a "moderately-featured" editor) for
>>  how its supposed to work. BBEdit (a *very* well featured editor) also
>>  does this correctly if you have Soft Wrap turned on. OS X TextEdit (A
>>  Cocoa app) behaves correctly.  That implies to me that this behavior
>>  should come for free with TE/WASTE (pre-X) or the Cocoa text
>>  rendering system.  Further, REALBasic (version 3.5.1 on Mac OS X)
>>  text fields also behave properly.
>
>Indeed, as we are planning full support for all character sets this feature
>does fit in as one that will be needed as part of that package of
>enhancements.
>
>Kind regards,
>
>Kevin


Excellent! Just what I wanted to hear. :)

Many thanks,

Brent

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Brent Neal
Concurrent Computing Laboratory for Materials Simulations
Dept. of Physics - Dept. of Computer Science
Louisiana State University