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From: mxmora@unix.SRI.COM (Matt Mora)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Changing string length in Pascal
Message-ID: <15669@unix.SRI.COM>
Date: 28 Aug 90 16:14:26 GMT
References: <1990Aug28.063939.18174@agate.berkeley.edu>
Reply-To: mxmora@unix.UUCP (Matt Mora)
Organization: SRI International, Menlo Park, CA
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In article <1990Aug28.063939.18174@agate.berkeley.edu> bmyers@garnet.berkeley.edu (Brian Myers) writes:

>Is there some other way to accomplish this transfer of text from 
>a handled memory object to a string variable?


Try;

GetIText(hText, TextString);


from IM "Given a handle to a statText or editText item in a dialog box, as
returned by GetDItem, GetIText returns the text of the item in the text
parameter."

It doesn't have to be a dialog item handle any handle to text will work.



>Brian




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