[Harbour] gtwvt 1.1 vs 1.0

[Massimo Belgrano]

My choice is break with harbour 1.0 compatibility (but not break  with
clip52 compatibility)  for having a better approachWith scroll bar also
windows mobile will be  possible!

2008/12/12 Pritpal Bedi <bedipritpal at hotmail.com>

>
> Lorenzo and All,
>
>
> Lorenzo Fiorini-2 wrote:
> >
> > Many thanks, I've tried many changes but I don't want to break other
> > features ( like gtwvg ).
> >
> > IMHO the 1.0 way of working is more "clean".
> > The "key" parameter has to be the font size since I may need a lot of
> > rows and columns in a small window or less characters with a bigger
> > window and since not all the font size can be used with a given font
> > the only way is to left to the user to set the font size, name, rows
> > and cols within a set of working combinations.
> >
> > With terminal font you can get smaller sizes while Lucida Console is
> > more readable than Courier at the same size so these 3 fonts should be
> > usable again.
> >
>
> I agree that base unit must be FONT. Right now it is ROWS/COLS.
>
> When Peter Rees introduced this GT he thought it appropriate that
> console size must fit the screen size at the most. It must not oversize
> screen
> dimensions. He was correct because he preceived it as a CONSOL.
>
> Now with the extensive usage this GT has attracted in importance demands
> it to be extended to honor Windows protocols.
>
> What I intention is to make it FONT oriented and let the final decision to
> increase/decrease its size be on the program code. If the window dimensions
> are
> increased by this fact then window be shown at x=0, y=0  corordinated when
> initiated
> no matter what its final size is. We can also think to implement scrollbars
> to honor the
> rows/cols etc.
>
> I need group decision before proceeding to implement it.
>
> NOTE: It may break some existing code if that is implemented under
> uncontrolled
> coordinates checkings
>
>
> Regards
> Pritpal Bedi
>
>
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