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From: beard@ux3.lbl.gov (Patrick C Beard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: How to use ParamText's
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Date: 15 Mar 89 01:04:16 GMT
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In article <8079@csli.STANFORD.EDU> wilson@csli.stanford.edu (Nathan Wilson) writes:
>
>I was working on being a good person and switching all the strings in
>my code to calls to GetIndString when I came across the following
>problem.  Under some conditions I would like to title a window (not a
>dialog or alert) that displays a PICT resource something like
>
><name of resource> ID = <number of resource> in <name of file>
>
>with the stuff in <> replaced with the appropriate info.  Now it
>occurred to me that the best way to generate this string would be to
>store it as a parameterized string as per alerts, that is
>
>^0 ID = ^1 in ^2
>

How about:
	Str255 title;
	String format;
	
	GetIndString(format, FORMAT_STRING_ID, 1);
	.
	.
	PtoCstr(format);
sprintf(title,format, PtoCstr(resName), PtoCstr(resNumberStr),PtoCstr(resFile));
	SetWTitle(window, CtoPstr(title));


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