Wow!
After all that, and having to endure the errors spit out by the
emulator debug because I dared to access the from data directly,
It just didn't work.
I'm still stuck with my original problem of prior title text
"showing thru" the new title text, when the new text length
is shorter than the prior text length.
...and I'm not hearing much from our authoritative and knowledgeable
friends @ palm.
At 10:42 AM 7/26/01 -0400, Scott Herman wrote:
>Oops! I guess I won't use FrmGetObjectIndex(), since
>the title does not have an ID to pass into FrmGetObjectIndex().
>
>Instead I'll use the following code, with gratitude to Marianne
>for the suggestion....
>
>unsigned FrmGetTitleIndex(FormType *frm) {
> unsigned index = 0,
> numObjects = 0;
>
> if (!frm)
> return(0);
>
> numObjects = FrmGetNumberOfObjects(frm);
>
> for (index = 0; index < numObjects; ++index) {
> if (frm->objects[index].objectType == frmTitleObj)
> return(index);
> } /* for */
>
> return(frmInvalidObjectId);
>
>} /* FrmGetTitleIndex */
>
>
>
>/* Scott Herman
> */
>
>
>
>
>
>At 10:15 AM 7/26/01 -0400, Scott Herman wrote:
> >Thanks Marianne,
> >
> >I'll try that, however, I'll use FrmGetObjectIndex()
> >rather than pawing through the form structure(s).
> >
> >Thx again,
> >
> >Scott Herman
> >
> >
> >At 09:36 PM 7/26/01 +0000, TargetPlot Software wrote:
> > >Hi,
> > >Do you hide the Title object before changing it ?
> > >I've found that something like this works...
> > > FrmHideObject(frm, FormTitleIdx);
> > > FrmSetTitle(frm, FormTitleStr);
> > > FrmShowObject(frm, FormTitleIdx);
> > >
> > >BTW, I do not know an easy way to find the FormTitleIdx. I look through
> > >all objects on the form until I find one with an object type of
> > >frmTitleObj. If anyone has a better way to find the object index of the
> > >frmTitleObj, I'd like to know.
> > >Regards,
> > >Marianne.
> > >------------------------------------------
> > >Trevor Hancock & Marianne Rieckmann
> > >TargetPlot Software
> > >http://www.targetplot.com.au
> > >mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > >mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > >
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