ifab623@walt.cc.utexas.edu (moon) (12/15/89)
HI! I am trying to access the TEHandle in another application's window. How does a INIT access TEHandle in a Word or MacWrite text window? There is no TEHandle entry in WindowRecord. It seems to me I have to patch something. Could you tell me how to find the Handle to the text? Welcome any advice. thanks. s j moon
amanda@mermaid.intercon.com (Amanda Walker) (12/15/89)
In article <22362@ut-emx.UUCP>, ifab623@walt.cc.utexas.edu (moon) writes: > HI! > > I am trying to access the TEHandle in another application's window. > How does a INIT access TEHandle in a Word or MacWrite text window? > There is no TEHandle entry in WindowRecord. > It seems to me I have to patch something. > Could you tell me how to find the Handle to the text? > Welcome any advice. thanks. s j moon There's no way to do it, mainly because applications like Word & MacWrite don't use TextEdit at all. They use their own text editing routines. Until IAC (Inter-Application Communication) comes around, there will be no reasonable way to do this sort of thing. Amanda Walker InterCon Systems Corporation --
6600pete@hub.UUCP (12/15/89)
From article <22362@ut-emx.UUCP>, by ifab623@walt.cc.utexas.edu (moon):
> How does a INIT access TEHandle in a Word or MacWrite text window?
Ugly news: MacWrite and Word don't use TextEdit. They use their own
internal format. They use QuickDraw to put that format on the screen.
I'm willing to bet Microsoft will be very quiet about what their memory
format is for any given version of Word. Apple might be a little more
sympathetic about a particularly old version of MacWrite, but that
sympathy would not remove the barrier of difficulty. (Y'see, these programs
aren't written with INIT twiddling in mind -- they could be, but they
aren't.) Claris would probably act the same as Microsoft about newer
MacWrites.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Pete Gontier | InterNet: 6600pete@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu, BitNet: 6600pete@ucsbuxa
Editor, Macker | Online Macintosh Programming Journal; mail for subscription
Hire this kid | Mac, DOS, C, Pascal, asm, excellent communication skillsearleh@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Earle R. Horton) (12/15/89)
In article <22362@ut-emx.UUCP> ifab623@walt.cc.utexas.edu (moon) writes: >HI! > >I am trying to access the TEHandle in another application's window. >How does a INIT access TEHandle in a Word or MacWrite text window? Neither program stores this information in a TEHandle, since they both use application code instead of TextEdit to manipulate the contents of text windows. This is both for performance and so documents can exceed 32k in size. I presume the text is kept in an application-specific data structure, about which you may be able to obtain information from the software manufacturer. Earle R. Horton
tim@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Maroney) (12/16/89)
In article <22362@ut-emx.UUCP> ifab623@walt.cc.utexas.edu (moon) writes: >I am trying to access the TEHandle in another application's window. >How does a INIT access TEHandle in a Word or MacWrite text window? You don't; there isn't one. Word processing programns don't use TextEdit; they handle their own text data structures and drawing. -- Tim Maroney, Mac Software Consultant, sun!hoptoad!tim, tim@toad.com "Gangsters would kidnap my math teacher, Miss Albertine, and I'd track them down and kill them one by one until she was free, and then she'd break off her engagement with my sarcastic English teacher, Mr. Richardson, because she'd fallen hopelessly in love with her grim-faced and silent fourteen-year-old savior." -- Nite Owl, in WATCHMEN by Alan Moore