[WASTE-list] monospace text

[Chinh Nguyen]

My app has a built-in text editor for editing programs and it uses  
monospace, monostyle text.

Is there a way to to set the inter character spacing so that each  
character is of a non fractional pixel width?  I constrain window  
resizes to columns (like Terminal.app) and that's no longer working  
since the switch from WASTE 2 to WASTE 3.  It would also be useful  
for tabbing because I tab based on characters and that's now broken too.

In terms of constraining to a line height, that works OK.  However,  
when I scroll down (I scroll by line height and character width  
rather than by pixel since my scrollbars track lines and columns, not  
pixels), I always see the bottom 2 pixel rows of the previous line to  
the top line of the page.  My destrect and viewrect are the same  
except the destrect is really wide since I don't use word wrap.

Which also leads me to this.  In the WASTE sample, I see that in the  
calculation of the text rect, there's an InsetRect() of 3 pixels.   
However, when you resize the window, you still see the text drawn up  
to the edge of the scrollbars.  Why is that?  I do that same thing  
with my editor and as a test, I commented out the InsetRect() and saw  
that the text overwrites the scrollbars by you guessed it, 3 pixels.   
It's not that I want a 3 pixel gap next to my scrollbars, I'm just  
wondering why it's necessary to subtract 3 pixels from the right and  
bottom of the text rect.  I think this logic has been there since  
older versions of WASTE.

Also, in my Run Log I get the message:

Exception thrown in function void WE3_File::OpenResFile(SInt8)  
(WE3_File.cp, line 272); error code = -39

when I WELoad() a text file.  I figure it's a harmless message  
because the file opens just fine.

-Chinh Nguyen
  cnguyen at stata.com