Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!mit-eddie!bbn!rochester!ur-tut!aisl
From: aisl@ur-tut (Larry Landry)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Printing Fields XCMD
Message-ID: <1517@ur-tut.UUCP>
Date: 25 Mar 88 16:24:29 GMT
References: <220100010@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: aisl@tut.cc.rochester.edu.UUCP (Larry Landry)
Organization: Univ. of Rochester Computing Center
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In article <220100010@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> leonardr@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>
> ...  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,
>	Does anyone have a better solution than this? ... 

Even though GetField will not do what you want, you can evaluate a 
HyperCard expression with the EvalExpr command.  This returns a handle 
to a zero terminated string.  Just evaluate "card field 3" or whatever
the field specification is.

Larry Landry
University of Rochester