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From: mcdonald@fornax.UUCP (Ken Mcdonald)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: I hate it when Apple does this . . .
Summary: My volume doesn't say this
Message-ID: <422@fornax.UUCP>
Date: 11 Mar 90 19:42:30 GMT
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Organization: School of Computing Science, SFU, Burnaby, B.C. Canada
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In article <88@ndcvb.cc.nd.edu>, dierks@ndcvb.cc.nd.edu (Timothy Dierks) writes:
> 
> Inside Mac, page I-405, says that the handle returned by GetDItem for an
> editText item is a handle to the current text.  If you just want to work with
> the current item, there is a textH member in a dialog record that is a
> handle to it.
> 
> Tim Dierks
> go Irish

My IM doesn't say this.  (Different editions, I guess.)  More particularly,
it specifically states that to extract or set the text in a statText or
editText item, one should pass the handle produced by GetDItem to GetIText
or SetIText.  This is what made me think that the handle returned is not
a simple handle to a string--if it were, why the need for SetIText/GetI
Text?

My original comment still stands...I hate it when Apple does this! :-)

Ken McDonald
mcdonald@cs.sfu.ca