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help with scrollbars

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qbasicking

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Aug 19, 2001
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I'm writing an os but some of the programs and files that I open in it are bigger than the screen (screen 12-640x480) and there is no bigger screen in qb1.1. I need to find a way to make scrollbars. If i want a window sometimes the pset's and locate's fall outside of it. HELP
please don't send me a zip or exe file
 
It looks like you're running into one of the fundamental problems a windowing system like Motif (for X Window Sys) or the GDI (for MS-Windows) needs to solve. The problems are called coordinate transformations, event handling, and clipping. It'll take me a long time to explain how all of this is done, so I'm going to refer you to Eclipzer, who has done this kind of stuff in QB (see his work on Nexus-13 and Nitescript at
 
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