Re: Attributes in member text?

["James H. H. Lampert" <jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Leif Guldbrand wrote:
> Rob,
>
> Just checked, and you seems to be correct :-)
>
> Though I would have said:
> First hex: 4 to F
> Second hex: 0 to E

Which actually, at least for a real terminal, is not quite correct. For 
a real terminal, although that's certainly what the message *says,* what 
it really *means* is that it must be a 2-digit hex number between 40 and 
FE, inclusive.

I just tried an experiment with our emulator: I temporarily added a 
toolbar button, that would bring up a dialog 
(JOptionPane.showInputDialog()) asking for a 2-digit hex number, 
checking to see if the cursor is on a field, and then plugging the 
resulting value into the buffer at the specified position. It's 
extremely crude, but it did allow me to stick attributes into a field 
text. Whether turning that into something operational is any better than 
just using a CL to do it is anybody's guess. For actual off-keyboard 
characters, one can just use the desktop OS's usual dodges for entering 
them, like alt-keypad and "Character Map" in WinDoze.

Probably not worth it, but the proof-of-concept was a fun exercise.

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JHHL