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From: brecher@well.sf.ca.us (Steve Brecher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: I hate it when Apple does this . . .
Message-ID: <16680@well.sf.ca.us>
Date: 14 Mar 90 08:39:17 GMT
References: <420@fornax.UUCP> <88@ndcvb.cc.nd.edu> <422@fornax.UUCP>
Reply-To: brecher@well.sf.ca.us (Steve Brecher)
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In article <422@fornax.UUCP> mcdonald@fornax.UUCP (Ken Mcdonald) writes:

> [IM] 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?

It is not a handle to a (Pascal) string; it is a handle to raw text,
with no preceding length byte.  The length of the text is given by
GetHandleSize.  What GetIText does is to make a Pascal string from
the text; SetIText does the converse.
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brecher@well.sf.ca.us (Steve Brecher)