Inside Macintosh: Programming With JManager /

Chapter 2 - JManager Reference / JManager Functions

Text Handling Functions /

JMGetTextLength

Returns the length of the string in a text object.

OSStatus JMGetTextLength (


const JMTextRef textRef,


UInt32* textLengthInCharacters);

textRef

The text object containing the string.

textLengthInCharacters

A pointer to an integer. On return, this parameter contains the length of the string, in characters.

function result

A result code; see "JManager Result Codes".

DISCUSSION

This function returns the string length in characters rather than bytes, since the Unicode standard uses 2 bytes per character, while standard Mac OS encodings and UTF-8 use only 1.