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Arvin
Text Area
Jan 6th, 2009, 5:04pm  
Does anyone have some example code for making a text area? I need to have a scrollable (both ways) text area.

I've been using the now deprecated SpringGUI library (love his buttons) and his text area can only have no scrollbars or a vertical scroll bar. I need both vertical and horizontal with no word wrap for displaying G-code in the ap I've been working on. (making a reprap gui)

Any help? If I have to start over, so be it. (~1300 lines of code)
Thanks.
Arvin
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PhiLho 
Re: Text Area
Reply #1 - Jan 6th, 2009, 5:26pm  
Yes, I saw also that SpringGUI have been deprecated, perhaps it will make a comeback. I was planning to use it someday, because it supports pasting of text, while controlP5 wasn't (last time I checked, and I could be wrong!).
Looking at addTextArea() reference, I see it has a scrollBarPolicy of SCROLLBARS_BOTH. It doesn't work?

I just got the source, I wonder what it takes to make it compatible with 1.0.1.
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Arvin
Re: Text Area
Reply #2 - Jan 6th, 2009, 7:49pm  
Didn't think to look at the source.

No the SCROLLBARS_BOTH errors. Acts like the enumeration was never implemented. In its place I can use an int but no matter what number I put there all I can get is zero scrollbars or a vertical one.

Guess I should download the source code. Naw, Too much on the todo list for a while. I'll have to wait a while.

Tried to email him but the only address I can find bounces.

Have you had a chance to look at the source? Could you see if you can find out about the scrollbars?

arvin
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PhiLho 
Re: Text Area
Reply #3 - Jan 6th, 2009, 9:48pm  
The source is actually one unique big Java file. If I search the constant, I see:

 /** Constant for the scrollbar policy of TextAreas, ScrollPanes, etc. */
 final public int SCROLLBARS_BOTH = 0, SCROLLBARS_VERTICAL_ONLY = 1, SCROLLBARS_HORIZONTAL_ONLY = 2, SCROLLBARS_NONE = 3;

For some reason, they are not static, so you need to use gui.SCROLLBARS_BOTH.

Hey, I just tested a couple of examples, including allElements. They appear to work fine in 1.0.1, not sure why the library have been deprecated.
If I add gui.SCROLLBARS_BOTH to the addTextArea call, I see both scroll bars, and pasting text here activates them.
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Arvin
Re: Text Area
Reply #4 - Jan 7th, 2009, 4:08am  
Woohoo!!! I was getting ready to just use a different language even though I had invested quite a bit of time doing it in Processing.

I don't like Java but Processing is cool.

Put the gui.SCROLLBARS_BOTH in and pasted some text and there the scrollbars were! Worked perfectly.

Thanks.
arvin
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NoChinDeluxe
Re: Text Area
Reply #5 - Aug 7th, 2009, 11:38am  
So have we decided that springGUI still works with the latest Processing build? Because I would love to use it for a current project, but don't want to go through the trouble if it won't work...
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