Text in Line Control

[Charles Dietz]

The users manual for PB/DLL 6.0 shows that text can be
displayed in the line control. The short program below
has one line control with text, but no text is displayed
when I run it. Yet, I know that the text is stored by
the control because I can retrieve it with a CONTROL
GET TEXT statement. I have searched the forum for some
leads to the problem, but couldn't find any.

Can anyone tell me why the text isn't displayed.


#COMPILE EXE
#INCLUDE "win32api.inc"

FUNCTION PBMAIN()AS LONG
LOCAL hWin AS LONG
DIALOG NEW 0,"Test Line Control",,,120,100, %WS_SYSMENU TO hWin
CONTROL ADD LINE, hWin, 100, "Testing", 10, 10, 80, 20, %SS_BLACKFRAMEk
DIALOG SHOW MODAL hWin
END FUNCTION

[Lance Edmonds]

A LINE control with the %SS_BLACKFRAME style does not *display* any text, it is a "graphical" control with a black edge only. It has a text property, but as you have found, it is not "visible".

Maybe you are actually looking for a FRAME control? (A frame control is also known as a group control). Alternatively, look at using a LABEL control.

Note that all of these controls are members of the "static" control class, and there are many permutations of the styles, so don't be afraid to experiment.


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Lance
PowerBASIC Support
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