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From: dmmg1176@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (David M Marcovitz)
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Subject: Str255
Message-ID: <1991Jan31.061259.20093@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 31 Jan 91 06:12:59 GMT
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Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
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I am using Think C 4.0 with TCL.  I am trying to use the gBartender
class to change menus.  On page 246 of the manual, it gives an
example:

gBartender->SetCmdText(cmdCopy, "\pCopy Picture");

The second argument is supposed to be a Str255.  If I use the command
just like this, the compiler doesn't recognize the second argument as
being the right type.

I can get around this by creating a variable of type Str255 and
copying "\pCopy Picture" into that variable.  This is ok, but
according to the documentation, I shouldn't have to do that.  I have
two questions:

(1) Am I doing something wrong, or is the documentation messed up?

(2) Is there a way to do this without declaring a variable?

Thanks.

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