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Creating functions for Undo and Redo?

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Garrett(Posted 2006) [#1]
Greetings,

I'm trying to figure out how to create some functions for Undo and Redo to be
used with a TextArea gadget.

I noticed in the MaxIDE code there are some Types that have related code to
this, but in the last few hours of trying to study it and follow the chain of
events, I've been unable to extract the knowledge I need.

Can anyone help walk me through this? Better yet, maybe we can make a
module of it so that we can create functions that blend in with the current
functions of:

GadgetCut(gadget:TGadget)
GadgetCopy(gadget:TGadget)
GadgetPaste(gadget:TGadget)

So we would add

GadgetUndo(gadget:TGadget)
GadgetRedo(gadget:TGadget)

Any help or insight either way is seriously appreciated.

Thanks,
-Garrett


tonyg(Posted 2006) [#2]
Thinking out aloud.
Couldn't you create a function wrapping SetTextAreaText?
Create an object containing a field which holds the text added and have a variable point to the link for that object..
When you undo use prevlink and redo nextlink until you're at the top/bottom of the chain.
Each time you undo/redo remove/add the text from the object at that link.