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From: sgrae@megatest.UUCP (Steve Graesser)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: MacApp question on TTEView
Message-ID: <19126@megatest.UUCP>
Date: 24 Jun 91 16:21:24 GMT
References: <14200@goofy.Apple.COM>
Organization: Megatest Corporation, San Jose, Ca
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I would like to change the text in the TTEView between
three different text Handles (text1, text2, text3)
using a pull down menu.  I was able to add the menu
to the menu bar, select the proper text to display,
but when trying to update the TEView Handle to
the new text, it either comes a out with the wrong
format or is trashed because of the repeated
calls to StuffText.

Let's assume fTEView is a valid TEView* in TDocument.

case cText1:
	fTEView->StuffText(text1);
	fTEView->ForceRedraw();
	break;

case cText2:
	fTEView->StuffText(text2);
	fTEView->ForceRedraw();
	break;

case cText3:
	fTEView->StuffText(text3);
	fTEView->ForceRedraw();
	break;

After looking at the MacApp libraries for
StuffText, SetText, etc. - I wasn't able to
find a routine that just changed the fTEH (sp?)
or fText handle to point the new Text Handle.

The MacApp Methods stack on ETO#3, doesn't
mention the destuctive behavior of StuffText
or of SetText (BTW how do you get SetText
to display more than 255 characters?)
and MacApp411 doesn't have an entry for StuffText.

Before I spent too much time figuring out how these work (I've had a look
but am a little confused), can someone tell me whether I'm heading in the
right direction ? Larry, Keith, Kent, anyone ?
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