Revision as of 23:54, 11 July 2007

This page is about editing text passed from FileMaker to your plugin.

Text Pubic Functions

• ulong GetSize() const

• void Assign ( const char *s, Encoding encoding = kEncoding_Native )
• void AssignWide ( const wchar_t *s )
• void AssignUnicode ( const ushort *s )

• void AssignWithLength ( const char *s, ulong strlength, Encoding encoding = kEncoding_Native )
• void AssignWideWithLength ( const wchar_t *s, ulong strlength )
• void AssignUnicodeWithLength ( const ushort *s, ulong strlength )

• void GetBytes ( char *charbuffer, ulong buffersize, ulong position = 0, ulong size = kSize_End, Encoding encoding = kEncoding_Native ) const

• void GetUnicode ( ushort *unicodebuffer, ulong position, ulong size ) const

• void SetText ( const Text &other, ulong position = 0, ulong size = kSize_End )
• void AppendText ( const Text &other, ulong position = 0, ulong size = kSize_End )
• void InsertText ( const Text &other, ulong position )
• void DeleteText ( ulong positionToDelete, ulong sizeToDelete = kSize_End )

• ulong Find ( const Text &other, ulong position ) const
• ulong FindPrev ( const Text &other, ulong position ) const
• ulong FindIgnoringCase ( const Text &other, ulong position ) const
• ulong FindPrevIgnoringCase ( const Text &other, ulong position ) const

• void Uppercase ()
• void Lowercase ()

• void GetStyle( CharacterStyle& style, ulong position ) const
• void GetDefaultStyle( CharacterStyle& style ) const

• void SetStyle( const CharacterStyle& style, ulong position = 0, ulong size = kSize_End )

• void RemoveStyle( const CharacterStyle& style )

• void ResetAllStyleBuffers()

• bool operator == ( const Text &that ) const
• bool operator != ( const Text &that ) const
• bool operator less ( const Text &that ) const
• bool operator less= ( const Text &that ) const
• bool operator gtr ( const Text &that ) const
• bool operator gtr= ( const Text &that ) const

• void operator delete ( void *obj )

Compare dataVect Text Value

I have found the following function useful for easy compare of a dataVect against a pre-defined text field.

bool DataVectCompare(const fmx::DataVect& dataVect, long index, char * compare )
//takes the passed DataVect and compares it against the fixed string passed, returns TRUE is they are the same.  (Not case sensitive)
//	eg.  DataVectCompare(dataVect, 0,  "something")   returns  TRUE is dataVect.AtAsText(0) ==  "something"
{
	fmx::TextAutoPtr	dv;
	dv->SetText( dataVect.AtAsText(index) );		// get the contents of the specified parameter.
	dv->Lowercase();					// and convert to all 'lowercase' for checking.

	fmx::TextAutoPtr    cs;
	cs->Assign(compare);					// take the passed 'Compare' string
	cs->Lowercase();					// and convert to all Lowercase for checking.

	return ( *dv == *cs );
	
} // DataVectCompare

Then, in any script where you want to compare the text passed by the user, you can include...

	if ( DataVectCompare(dataVect,0, "Text") )
	{
		// Do something only if first parameter (index = 0) passed is equal to  'Text'
	}