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From: kazim@Apple.COM (Alex Kazim)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: CommToolbox: What the heck is going on?
Summary: Late Nite, eh?
Keywords: CommToolbox
Message-ID: <34751@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 15 Sep 89 08:37:23 GMT
References: <10135@bsu-cs.bsu.edu>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
Lines: 64

In article <10135@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> mithomas@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Michael Thomas Niehaus) writes:
>
>1.  What is a WindowP?  And where is it declared?

Ignore that mess.  You got source to our primary test app, which means
there's a whole lot of junk in there that's meant to give the toolbox
a hard time.  Try this one out:

FUNCTION TermSendProc(thePtr: Ptr;theSize: LONGINT;refCon: LONGINT;
					flags: INTEGER): LONGINT;	 
VAR
 theErr : CMErr;

BEGIN
 TermSendProc := 0;
 theErr := CMWrite(gConn,thePtr,theSize,cmData,FALSE,NIL,0,flags);  
 IF theErr = noErr THEN
  TermSendProc := theSize
 ELSE
  ; { some error handling here, maybe }
END;

gConn is a global, or you could use the refCon being passed in (it's
the terminal record's refcon) to access it.  flags does end-of-message
stuff for connection tools.  It should be documented a little better
in the next manual release

>
>Here are some general comments:
>
>1.  I have never before needed to pass a pointer to a handle (for example,
>    in TMChoose).

The tool can change...

>2.  In Think's C, before I would get lots of "Illegal Pointer/Integer
>    Combination" errors.  Now, with the prototypes, I get loads of these
>    "Call of XXX does not match prototype" or something similar, which is
>    not very helpful (since I then have to locate the prototype).

I'll pass it along...

>3.  Why do some buttons have to be clicked?  Is there no default on the
>    return key?  (For example, after a connection has been made by the
>    Modem tool.)

Bug.  Alpha-software....

>4.  A direct connection tool would be helpful. 

You should have gotten a connection tool called "Serial" along with
the "Modem" tool.

>
>That should about cover the questions of the last 5 hours.  Thanks for any
>help you can give.
>
>-Michael
>

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Alex Kazim, Apple Computer
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