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  1. Coding Clipboard Functions for #text & #field
  2. Darrel Plant's Scrolling "Star Wars Credits" effect (29k D7 movie file)
  3. Alan's Lingo for Text (d4-5 era) [Mac] ~~ [Windows]
  4. Lingo for Text Operations (Cut, Copy, Paste..)
  5. Macintosh & Windows Text Rendering Comparison or "why are fonts so darn big on PC's?"

    f i e l d s   &   m e m b e r s

  6. Updated behaviour deals with exact resizing of BOTH vertical and horizontal values on textbox. Faster than ever!
  7. Use imaging lingo rather than loctochar to calculate the width of a text box. Useful for drag and drop text.
  8. Embedded Password Font demo - a font embedded that consists entirely of "*" characters, Useful for making password entry fields and the like. Mac [7k] ~~ Win [6k]
  9. Auto-tabbing between editable text fields
  10. Tabbing between fields
  11. Aligning text fields over frames
  12. Changing text field width via Lingo
  13. Converting a field to a bitmap via Lingo
  14. Setting the width of a field via Lingo
  15. Setting the editable text field focus via lingo
  16. Formatting Text
  17. Hiliting/Dehiliting lines in fields
  18. Justifying text via lingo by Terry R. Schussler
  19. Multi-Select Text [Mac] by Peter Small, is an example of how to create a multi-item "list-select" box.
  20. Selecting text with a list box (uses OOPs)
  21. Selecting Multi-lines in a text field by changing text style
  22. Properly setting the forecolor of field text when running in 16-bit and 24-bit environments
  23. How to de-hilite text.
  24. Another de-hilite script idea

    s t r i n g s

  25. How to recombine strings using recursion
  26. simple character substitution
  27. A workable but not so secure text encryption algorithm
  28. Scrambler and Example of Parent-Child Scripting

    s c r o l l i n g

  29. Adaptive Custom Scrollbars, or stopping the scroll at the last line, where it belongs.
  30. Custom scrolling text field (different from standard scrolling controls)
  31. Nine Trees Design: Custom Scroll via lingo Mac [36k] ~~ Windows [28k]
  32. Matt's Scrolling Text [Mac]
  33. Scrolling Fields with Parent-Child scripting
  34. How to Hilight text in a scrolling field
  35. Resetting scroll to top

    s e a r c h i n g

  36. Binary search for text files
  37. Find and Replace all ocurrences in a text field
  38. Finding text in a scrolling field.
  39. Generic handlers for finding text
  40. Faster searching of multiple text fields

    e x t e r n a l   t e x t
    see also: FileIO tips

  41. Importing Text "on-the-fly"
  42. Stripping linefeed characters from text files
  43. Determining the proper platform-specific line end character