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From: stores@unix.SRI.COM (Matt Mora)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Macintosh handles
Keywords: handle, TextEdit, FSWrite
Message-ID: <1409@unix.SRI.COM>
Date: 19 Jul 89 16:10:24 GMT
References: <1044@clinet.FI> <8043@hoptoad.uucp>
Reply-To: stores@unix.UUCP (Matt Mora)
Distribution: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Organization: SRI International, Menlo Park, CA
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In article <8043@hoptoad.uucp> tim@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Maroney) writes:
>In article <1044@clinet.FI> maa@clinet.FI (Miika Asunta) writes:

>
>>2)	How can I store a TEstylehandle entirely into a file? Is
>>	the following (written in pseudo-code) enough:
>>	FSWrite n bytes , pointer (TEstylehandle^)
>                                    ^^^^^

Tim, think he wants to save the style information not just the text.

>That's just about correct, yes.  In C, actual code would be:
>FSWrite(refnum, (long)(*te)->teLength, *((*te)->hText));
>and if my Pascal hasn't gotten too rusty, that would be:
>FSWrite(refnum, te^^.teLength, (te^^.hText)^);
>
I haven't used the new TE styles yet butI read the chapter awhile ago
and i think it mentions somthing about a new scrap type 'styl' that
you might be able to save in the resource fork.

Haven't tried it just guessing.





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Matthew Mora
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