Scrolling graphics/text window

[Keith Waters]

I need a window to display mixed text and graphics (line diagrams). That's no problem, but I want the user to be able to resize, scroll and to select and Copy text as in a normal read-only edit control, for instance. It would also be nice if the text and graphics could be printed. I've started down the road of writing my own control but I was wondering if anyone knows a better approach or of any code snippets to help.

Thanks,
Keith


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[Semen Matusovski]

keith --
it's relative simple to make scrollable dialog.
see, for example, http://www.powerbasic.com/support/pb...ad.php?t=24953
this scrollable dialog can be a child of main, fixed size dialog (i didn't post, but, as i remember, i have a short sample on my pc).

what exactly confuse you ?

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[Keith Waters]

Semen

Many thanks for the link to sample Scrollable ViewPort/Dialog codes. They look like they will prove useful to me. Actually, there was nothing confusing me, it's just that I wanted to avoid "reinventing the wheel" and to check that my overall approach was sensible.

Thanks again,
Keith


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[Jules Marchildon]

Keith;

Just to add to Semen's suggestion, if you are painting all your images
to a memory DC first, (double buffering technique) then you should have an
easy time sending that to a printer just as you would do it with a bitmap.
I have not dug up any supporting source code yet, but I recall some people
have posted some in the past. I use Don Dicksons Print driver Dll, comes
with source for the same cost for one Two-Four of Canadian Beer.

I am not sure if you are saying you want to make an "editable" control that
can have image(objects) and text side by side something like MS Word?
That's a very tall order!


Regards,
Jules

[Keith Waters]

Jules

Many thanks for the double-buffering tip-off.

I don't want an editable control; it will be strictly read-only. But I do want line diagrams and selectable text to coexist.

Regards, Keith


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