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From: raylau@dasys1.UUCP (Raymond Lau)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Broken DrawString in LSC?
Message-ID: <1805@dasys1.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 25-Oct-87 12:29:33 EST
Article-I.D.: dasys1.1805
Posted: Sun Oct 25 12:29:33 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 28-Oct-87 00:50:38 EST
References: <11540031@hpsmtc1.HP.COM>
Organization: The Big Electric Cat
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Summary: Calling DrawString from LSC.

In article <11540031@hpsmtc1.HP.COM>, kwallich@hpsmtc1.HP.COM (Ken Wallich) writes:
> 
> I'm using LSC and am having problems getting DrawString to work when
> I pass anything to it.  It appears that LSC is failing to null terminate
> the string I pass.  This happens both when I pass literals, or sprintf'ed
> parms.  I'm running V2.11.  Has anyone else run across this?  The code
> worked fine under Megamax and DesMet (remember that one?).  Any help
> would be most appreciated.
> 

DrawString expects a pascal string (length byte preceeded)  DrawString("\pTest"); works fine.  If you're passing null terminated C strings, you must convert them first.  Megamax deals only in C strings and converts them before passing them to DrawString...(adding conversion overhead for when you know the string in advance.)