Beginner questions: text display in an Intuition window and scrolling

[thyslo]

Hi everyone,

As a beginner in Amiga C programming I set me the task to read a text file line by line and display it inside an Intuition window (v37/2.04). This is working so far. For window opening I used the following struct TagItem (excerpt)

struct TagItem windowTags[] =
{
  …
  { WA_IDCMP, IDCMP_MENUPICK | IDCMP_VANILLAKEY | IDCMP_RAWKEY},
  { WA_NewLookMenus, TRUE },  // Ignored before v39
  { WA_Flags, WFLG_GIMMEZEROZERO },
  { WA_SmartRefresh, TRUE },
  { TAG_DONE, NULL },
};

The text display is done with intuition.library / PrintIText().

Then I implemented a basic scrolling for the cursor up/down keys. The scrolling uses graphics.library / ScrollRaster() to move the visible text one line up/down an then fill the appropriate line at bottom/top with PrintIText.

But now I'm kinda stuck and have questions which I can't find an answer, so I ask them here:

1) Is this the right approach to display and scroll text on AmigaOS v37/2.04 or is there some more automatic solution inside the OS which I'm not aware of?

2) I'd like to go a step further and add scrollbars to the window. How can I achieve this? Do I have to set a flag/TagItem at OpenWindow or are scrollbars only possible if I'd use a SuperBitmap window? Or have the scrollbars to be manually added after opening the window?

[peceha]

Hehe,
I was about to ask the same questions.
I asked already for this somewhere else (but have not started writing yet my own program) and I know I could use:
ClearEOL(), ClearScreen(), SetWriteMask() (to speed up a little), DoHookClipRects() ( advanced), ScrollWindowRaster()
Also I was told to use separate bitmap and then transfer everything to the window at one go.
But still don't know about scroll bars...

[thomas]

Scroll bars have to be added manually.

http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?...84#post1195984

[peceha]

Thank you.

[thomas]

You might have noticed that the example uses OS 1.x methods.

In the meantime I converted the example to use OS 2.x methods (scroller2.c).

There is also an older example which adds arrow buttons beside the scroll bars (scroller3.c).

[peceha]

These examples are very helpful - everything in one place.
Great !!

[thyslo]

Many thanks for the examples:-)