Clear area

How can I clear a text area? i've used my-area/text: "" show my-area but I get a few characters of garbage on the screen. I've used CLEAR my-area/text and my-area/text: NONE with the same results. If I use my-area/text: " " show my-area (a single space instead of none) I get a clear display with a space at the head of the text. How do I do this correctly? Thanks, Jim

> How can I clear a text area? i've used > my-area/text: "" show my-area

Neither of your methods work consistantly for me. If I enter lots of text I'm sometimes left with a line of garbage text at the top, like Jim was complaining about. Ah - just remembered something. This from the View docs... line-list: A BLOCK that is used to track the offsets of text lines when text is being displayed. When more than 200 characters of text are being displayed, this list should be set to NONE when large changes are made to the text. This allows REBOL to recalculate the locations of all TEXT lines. So, adding a... my-area/line-list: none after you clear your text and before you show it would seem to be the cure. On 06-Aug-01, Anton wrote:

>> How can I clear a text area? i've used >> my-area/text: "" show my-area > ] > (or [a/text: copy "" show a] )

how about my-area/text: "^(page)" show my-areay ..or is that only for the rebol console? ~H Du skrev (Monday 06.08.2001, kl. 04.45):

Hello Jim! On 06-Ago-01, you wrote: JC> How can I clear a text area? i've used my-area/text: "" show JC> my-area but I get a few characters of garbage on the screen. This happens only if the face is focused, doesn't it? In this case, just unfocus it before clearing. focus none clear myarea/text show myarea ; or focus myarea Regards, Gabriele. -- Gabriele Santilli <[giesse--writeme--com]> - Amigan - REBOL programmer Amiga Group Italia sez. L'Aquila -- http://www.amyresource.it/AGI/

my-area/line-list: none Hi Carl, This works perfectly every time. Thanks, Jim