The Item type

Purpose

This is not a general purpose type. It is a "support" type which is used by other types, for example the loose item and edline types. It is used to draw the border around an item, normally when the pointer is indicating that item. It is a separate type because it is common to more than one type, which prevents both duplication of code and strange configurations (the borders should always be equally thick, no matter what kind of object it is around).

This type should normally only be accessed from within other types. Therefore, it has no tags and cannot be created directly from within SBasic. You should only have to use this if you create your own types, which is something you wouldn't normally do with an SBasic program.

Two kinds of Item types come as standard with ProWesS: One makes "normal" items, the other is such that no border is ever drawn around the current item. They are respectively called "item" and "itemp" and you can set which one of these you want when configuring ProWesS.


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last edited 1996 Jun 06 (wl)