Re: Multiple lines in statusbar

[Egon Andersen <post talura dk>]

Andrew E. Makeev wrote:
> Egon Andersen wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've sometime multiple lines of text in the statusbar.
> > Normally I achieve this by just inserting "\n" in the text-string.
> > This works fine on Linux, but recently I saw that on Windows I only 
> > get a single line and the line-break are shown as the square fallback 
> > character.
> > (I can't tell if it has ever been more than a 'one-liner' on windows.)
> >
> > I find this behaviour a little strange as the same way of making 
> > multiple lines works for e.g. labels on both Linux and Windows.
>
>
> Linux is using just '\n' (LF = 0xA) character for end of line, but MS 
> Windows - '\r\n' (CR + LF = 0xD + 0xA) characters.
> Guess, STL lib defines that in std::eol when you are using std::cout, 
> std::cerr output streams.

Well, I'm using C, not C++ ;-)

I know that there are differences between Unix/Linux and Windows on how 
newline is defined, but "\n" is exactly saying "newline", not how it is 
implemented on the particular platform.

According to the C-standard (ISO-C99):
<cite>
\n (newline) Moves the active position to the initial position of the 
next line.
</cite>

And in fact if you open a file in text-mode on Windows, \n is converted 
to CR+LF - that is one of the ideas behind using "\n" and text-mode.

So I can't really see why "\n" should not be correct when I write a 
string to the statusbar, just as well as it works correct when it is a 
label.

And it is a disaster for portability, if "\n" should be "\r\n" on 
Windows and even something else on Mac.

Best regards
Egon Andersen