Subj : Slider Problems
To   : Udo Zaydowicz
From : Vitus Jensen
Date : Thu Nov 09 2000 05:55 pm

Moin Udo!

03.11.2000, Udo Zaydowicz wrote a message to Vitus Jensen:

 UZ> [...]
 VJ>> Yes, it's a status bar.  But the process displayed could run
 VJ>> some hours: 
 UZ> Yes, then it's a better idea to have the text.

 UZ> [...]
 VJ>> When thinking about my specific use of a slider something
 VJ>> like the windows solution would be nice: display the
 VJ>> percentage value as a number inside the slider.  Is there
 VJ>> source code how to subclass a slider to build such a beast?  

 UZ> I don't know.
 UZ> In FleetStreet, there is a status bar with text (percentage) in a
 UZ> slider arm type 'thing'; try "Aufholen". 

It's "aaterhaemta" in my swedish fleetstreet (well, nearly.  Fleetstreet does 
not allow to use high ascii codes when the area is configured as ascii).

 UZ> Unfortunately, I don't know
 UZ> whether the status bar is realized as a slider. Maybe, you want to
 UZ> have a look at the source code, which is freely available probably in
 UZ> every BBS with OS/2 software.
....

I did a search for SLM_ but got only hits for normal sliders not for the one 
with percentage values.  There are 116 .c files so it will take some time to 
dig through...

Bye,
   Vitus

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