Re: files and strings

Ian Medland (Ian.Medland@parkplatz.demon.co.uk)
Thu, 09 Jul 1998 09:06:42 +0100

Yoshiharu DEWA ($B=PMU5A<#(B) wrote:
>
> Hello Ian and MUGers,
> > Should have seen that! Pity you have to read it in to a text item first
> > still though - I suppose you can hide it off screen somewhere.
>
> Yes and no. Actually you have to prepare the text object for the
> application you asked. (maybe another solution exists, anyone?)
> But if the initiallyActive of this text object is false, then the
> object does not appear on the screen.

I assume from this that an object can be available but not active.
Otherwise :GetTextData message will not work. Can someone confirm this?

> I heard some company (i.e. GL-Net) will plan to make a graphical
> authoring tool.

Oh, I'm sure there are many companies out there thinking about graphical
authoring tools :-)

regards
Ian