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From: leonardr@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Printing Fields XCMD
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Date: 22 Mar 88 16:11:00 GMT
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Nf-From: uxe.cso.uiuc.edu!leonardr    Mar 22 10:11:00 1988



	I have been working on an XCMD that will allow you to print a Scrolling
Field in Hypercard.  I thought I had the little bugger done until, while
testing, I discovered that the GetField... calls all return handles to STRINGs
and not to text therefore limiting the fields to 255 chars.  So out the window
went all my previous code and it was back to the drawing board.
	My current solution (though not entirely working yet) is to use the
Open File and Write File commands in HyperTalk to write th file out to disk and
then call my XCMD with the name of the file.  The XCMD then reads the text file,
Prints it out and then deletes it (since it doesn't need to stay around).
	Does anyone have a better solution than this?  Has anyone already
written one of these and want to save me from more wasted time?  Dan, how
about some way to get a WHOLE FIELD back in that Handle instead of just a 
string??


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