DCMULTILINE text display

[reganc]

Is there an easy way to update an MLE and get the display to always make the last line visible?

I have a number of places where we use DCMULTILINE to display audit logs and I've tried a number of things but never really got a handle on the correct way to do this.

Anybody have any tricks they can show me?

[Tom]

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@ x,y DCMULTILINE cStatus ... OBJECT oStatus

(.. somewhere in your code, where oStatus gets updated ...)
FUNCTION UpdateStatus(cStatus,oStatus,nStatusLineWidth)
cStatus += "Something happend!"+CRLF
oStatus:SetData()
oStatus:SetFirstChar(Len(cStatus)-nStatusLineWidth)

[reganc]

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@ x,y DCMULTILINE cStatus ... OBJECT oStatus

(.. somewhere in your code, where oStatus gets updated ...)
FUNCTION UpdateStatus(cStatus,oStatus,nStatusLineWidth)
cStatus += "Something happend!"+CRLF
oStatus:SetData()
oStatus:SetFirstChar(Len(cStatus)-nStatusLineWidth)

Should have known it would be so simple...!

And even if I am not updating the text and displaying at the same time, I can always use code to work out the last line anyway.
Thanks, Tom

[Tom]

A pleasure.

[rdonnay]

Tom -

I just used your solution too after exhausting every way to use xbeK_CTRL_END.

Thanks