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Iuowy, In Tyler - a tiling window manager for BlackBox - I have introduced a customization mechanizm that would enable you to create a dark theme. Limitations: 1) Linux only. 2) Requires changes to module Windows, and some others patches to the Kernel; these patches have already been incorporated in...

Colleagues, The CP Language Report has it in section 4, Declaration and scope rules: The scope of an object x extends textually from the point of its declaration to the end of the block (module, procedure, or record) to which the declaration belongs and hence to which the object is local. Essentiall...

SetNativeProp Amendment Dear colleagues, I propose to amend TextControllers.StdCtrl.SetNativeProp. The proposed amendment allows the user to apply attributes (and properties in general) to the current word, not only to the current selection. Thus, pressing ^B would bolden the word that has the caret...

ReadRunBugUnbug.txt Dear colleagues, the documentation for TextModels.Reader.ReadRun states: Read next attribute run, stops at next view. I interpret "read next attribute run" as: (* Not a quote, markup just for highliting *) Post: (attr = AttributeOf(rd.Pos() - 1)) & (rd.eot OR (attr...

Dear colleagues, A minor omission in documentation for Meta: PROCEDURE (IN var: Item) GetStringVal (OUT x: ARRAY OF CHAR; OUT ok: BOOLEAN) NEW Reads a string value from an item. Pre var.Valid() 20 var.typ = arrTyp & var.BaseTyp() = charTyp 21 var.obj = varObj 22 As you can see, there's no mentio...

Robert, thank you very much, I gave your material a brief look and got the general idea of how the task can be accomplished. Basically, it relies on the services of WinInet, I guess. I won't be able to use this as is, unfortunately, since I work under Linux, so the task will require interfacing to s...

Robert, yes, very interested!

Robert wrote: Possible, yes, but not what I would describe as easy!
I use a module Oms gave me in 2010; I can post it here if anyone is interested.

luowy,
What specifically do you think is ugly in that text - I mean with a cascading IF..ELSIF..END?