DCL and reading files

Anybody know an easy way to read a text file and display it's contents in a
dialog box in a way that would make it editable? I can construct the dialog
box using a trick similar to the afralisp tutorial here:
http://www.afralisp.com/lisp/dclatt2.htm. But I can't find a way to put the
entire contents into one box for editing. I can do it so that each line of
text is in a separate edit box (just like the afralisp tutorial), but I
would prefer to have one multi-row edit box. Is there a way to do this with
pure DCL and NOT with Object DCL?

 

Nathan,

For so far i now there is'nt such a dialog.

You can try it with DosLib from Robert McNeel & Associates with dos_editbox

Example (dos_editbox "Editor" "Enter some text" "Hockey\nis\nthe\nbest!")

Cheers

Harrie

 

Nathan,

If you have the express tools acetutil.arx then see the acet-ui-txted function. Of course, there is no guarantee that this will be supported in future releases.

Peter

 

Why not use Notepad?

 

Let's explain a little:
I created a dialog box that allows me to make changes specific settings
(i.e. osmode, orthomode, filletrad) loaded in my acaddoc.lsp file. I would
like to have an edit box that allows me to append a few lines to the file
directly. Notepad May work, but a multi-line edit box would look and
function much nicer.

Did a little more digging and have found other who have asked the same basic
question. The concensus is multi-line edit boxes don't exist in pur vanilla
lisp/DCL. Too bad.