PA_SetTextField

version 2003

PA_SetTextField (tNum; fNum; text; len)

Parameter	Type		Description
tNum	short		Table number of the field to access
fNum	short		Field number of the field to access
text	char*		Pointer to the text buffer
len	long		Length of the text

The routine PA_SetTextField fills the text field number fNum of the current record of the table number tNum with the text pointed to by the buffer text, of length len.

If the field is not a text field, the routine does nothing and sets an error in PA_GetLastError().

Depending on default settings or on previous calls to PA_UseMacCharacters or PA_UseANSICharacters, newText should contain Macintosh or ANSI characters.

Fill the field content with the content of a text variable (no error checking here).

   void TextVariableToTextField( PA_Variable v, short tNum, short fNum )
   {
      char   *text;
      long   size;

      if(PA_GetVariableKind(v) == eVK_Text)
      {
   // First get the size of the buffer, then allocate it and recall the routine
         size = PA_GetTextVariable( v, 0 );
         text = malloc( size );
         size = PA_GetTextVariable( v, text );

   // text is filled -> transfert it to the field
         PA_SetTextField( tNum, fNum, text, size );

   // cleanup
         free(text);
      }
   }
   

PA_GetTextField, PA_UseAnsiCharacters, PA_UseMacCharacters.

Use PA_GetLastError to see if an error occurred