At 6:17 AM -0800 1/13/06, Lennox Jacob wrote:
I have an app - MyApp which has a BevelButton.
When I select MyClippingFile then MyClippingFile becomes the Caption.
What does it mean to "select" MyClippingFile?
At this point, I would like a window named MyDisplayWindow to open
(So far so good, I can do that).
I would now like to display the contents of MyClippingFile in
MyDisplayWindow.EditField - That I cannot get to happen.
What have you tried so far? What do you have to start with?
I'll take a guess that you have a FolderItem which refers to
MyClippingFile, and that the problem is that you don't know how to
read the contents of such a file. I don't, either -- it would help
greatly if you told us what platform you're running on, since
"clipping file" isn't a standard file format. On classic MacOS it
was actually a resource file, if I recall correctly, so you'd use the
ResourceFork class to read it. On OS X, I doubt that's the case...
Hmm, or maybe it is. I just dragged some text to the desktop in OS
10.4.4, and it appears in Terminal as a 0-length file (i.e., no
content at all). So maybe Apple hasn't yet moved away from resource
forks for these yet.
...Yep, sure enough. I opened it with a little resource editor (I'm
using one I wrote ages ago, but you might try downloading ResFool),
and it contains two resources: a 'drag' resource that I believe
defines the types of data involved, and a 'TEXT' resource that
contains the actual text. So, I think all you'd need to do is open
the resource fork of the clipping file, and read the first 'TEXT'
resource.
HTH,
- Joe
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