Howdy. The name is Harry Robinson and I'm new to this. I live in the beautiful city of Burlington, Vermont on the banks of Lake Champlain. New-York State is on the other side of the lake. I am currently retired and I am learning how to program in C and in TCL also. I find TCL much simpler than C! Come one come all visit Burlington. It's a beautiful city! I have done some work for Habitat for Humanity, I got to make a lot of travels abroad and got to meet a lot of very poor people; I then realized how much our kids don't realize how lucky and blessed they are. You might consider coming to give us a hand at Habitat. Thanks! ----- '''Technical questions''' I find a sort of bug strangely in all TCL applications. We hit "Home" and instead of returning to the first word of the same line it returns to the beginning of the paragraph. Can this be fixed? -- check out [Move cursor by display line in a text widget]; [LES]. I also notice the insert button does not give crush (whatever this function is called. It writes over a text and does not insert). Can this also be fixed? Thanks! [DKF]: We don't currently support an overwrite mode for either [entry] or [text], at least in part because a number of us find it more annoying than useful. :^) (Many other applications use this approach as well, for example Mozilla.) OTOH, it could be added. We'd need to add a flag to the widget (easy), a few bindings to do the work (slightly harder), and a good way of indicating what mode we're in (awkward, and not done by many other apps, for example IE, which leads to people being unsure what happens when they press a letter). There are also a few more formal requirements to make it happen (docs, tests, and a small [TIP]) but they should be relatively straight forward. [Harry Robinson] Howdy and thanks so much Mister DFK. "Overwrite" is the term indeed. And also many thanks to Mister LES for his link. Thanks to both. (May 27 2004) ----- Welcome to the wiki, Harry Robinson! (--[Ro]) Enjoy your stay here =) [Harry Robinson] Howdy and thanks Mister Ro! (May 27 2004) ---- [Robert Abitbol] I read your posts on this wiki notably on the [George Staplin] page. You certainly have a lot of wisdom and experience and your trying to share it with younger people is very commendable. However I believe you are wasting your time completely. I have found one solid principle in my life time: '''trying to put reason in some people's heads simply doesn't work. It's basically like talking to the wall.''' So I simply give up trying to put sense in these people, I move on and I find more sensible people. I don't have time to spend with rigid, delusional people who are going to ruin my life with their lack of common sense. Life is too short. I am sure you will agree with me. Besides the guy you are trying to reason is being hypnotized by [Rohan Pall] who tells him to tell me to go to hell and to close all channels of communication with me. Do you think this is a mature and professional attitude? So what do you do with people like that? If you ask me the guy needs more a dehypnotizer than a good advisor. I look at it this way: if someone shows a total lack of empathy and common sense I am not interested in building any sort of friendship or collaboration with him. You are much more optimistic than I am in this regard. I can't bet you you won't get anywhere so please stop wasting your time! '''You are talking to a wall''' when you talk to certain people. What you say enters one ear and goes out the other ear. So please spare your keyboard and forget about these people. Do like I did: stamp the file with the mention "Lost Cause File Closed", put it in the archives or in the garbage and move on to more interesting stuff! ----- [[ [Category Person] ]]