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Subject: Re: Broken DrawString in LSC?
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Date: Mon, 26-Oct-87 10:26:00 EST
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Posted: Mon Oct 26 10:26:00 1987
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DrawString (and the other Toolbox routines) accept Pascal strings,
which are counted ASCII strings.  LSC uses C strings by default.  LSC
WILL NOT AUTOMATICALLY CONVERT FOR YOU (this is a feature).  You can
specify a Pascal-style string literal by the syntax "\pyour string".
The runtime routines PtoCstr and CtoPstr will convert from one style
to the other in-place (and also return the converted string as a
function value).  When you use them, remember to include <pascal.h> or
to declare the function types (I only say this because it took me two
days to find this stupid error on my part).

Roger Lipsett