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From: tim@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Maroney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Listomania!!
Message-ID: <9818@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: 23 Jan 90 14:53:16 GMT
References: <26163@cup.portal.com>
Reply-To: tim@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Maroney)
Organization: Eclectic Software, San Francisco
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I tried to mail this, but the address at the bottom of the message
bounced.

In article <26163@cup.portal.com> Arthur_P_Bebak@cup.portal.com writes:
>/* add the string */
>SetPt(&theCell,0,0);
>strcat(string,"Test1");

Strike one -- string has not been initialized, so strcat will give
unpredictable results.  Try strcpy instead.

>CtoPstr(string);
>LAddToCell(string,strlen(string),theCell,theList);

Strike two -- you're calling a C string routine (strlen) on a string
you just converted to Pascal.  This will give unpredictable results.

Strike three -- you're setting a cell that does not exist.  You gave
a dataBounds which had no rows, and did not do an LAddRow to create
a row.  The LAddToCell should work, but I wonder why you don't do
an LSetCell instead?  You're not really appending, after all.  This
is weirdly similar to the strcat/strcpy confusion above.
-- 
Tim Maroney, Mac Software Consultant, sun!hoptoad!tim, tim@toad.com

"Our newest idol, the Superman, celebrating the death of godhead, may be
 younger than the hills; but he is as old as the shepherds."
    - Shaw, "On Diabolonian Ethics"