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From: STORKEL@RICE.BITNET (Scott Storkel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Printing Fields XCMD
Message-ID: <311STORKEL@RICE>
Date: 28 Mar 88 19:58:35 GMT
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Organization: Rice University - ICSA
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My documentation says that the GetField... calls all return handles to zero
terminated strings, which means that you get the entire field. The docs I have
are not "official" and I haven't ever tried to use a GetField... call, but I
Have no reason to think they are wrong.

In any event, if GetField doesn't work, just pass the field you want to print
as a parameter to your XCMD. Such as:

              MyXCMD(card field 1)

This way, your XCMD or XFCN gets a handle to a zero terminated string
containing the contents of the field you passed to the routine. You can then
print the field, without having to call Hypercard to get its contents. This is
the method I would use.

Hope this helps,

Scott Storkel
Macintosh Software Development
Rice Unversity