Text Tips

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 )

Example Text Functions

Compare dataVect Text Value

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