Re: dealing with different types of strings
Re: dealing with different types of strings
- Subject: Re: dealing with different types of strings
- From: Matthew Formica <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 12:05:20 -0800
An easier way might be to typecast the NSString into a CFString and use
CFStringGetPascalString or something to do the conversion in one step.
- Matthew
On 1/16/02 11:29 AM, "Josh Ferguson" <email@hidden> wrote:
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From: Josh Ferguson
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Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 12:48 PM
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To: 'email@hidden'
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Subject: dealing with different types of strings
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I'm trying to find the best method of taking input from a TextField and
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converting it to a Pascal String to be inserted as parameters in a
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library function. I can't find a way to get the value from the text
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field as a Pascal string, so I thought of storing it to an NSString,
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then using the getCString (or just cString) method to store it to a char
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* (this may be an extra step), then using CopyCStringToPascal() to copy
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the char * to a Str255 *... I was hoping there was an easier method for
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accomplishing this...anyone have any ideas? I come from a Unix /
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Windows background, so dealing with Pascal strings is totally foreign to
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me...
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Josh Ferguson - QA Engineer
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eSellerate, Inc. - Lincoln, NE
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email@hidden
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