Re: Question on CtlGetLabel()

[Chang . Elizabeth]

I was able to get the text out of the label (using StrCopy) only at the
ctlSelectEvent.  It was "@..." at other time.

-Elizabeth


                                                                                       
                          
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--On 07 August 2001 09:10 -0700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> According to the Palm OS API Reference documentation, CtlGetLabel() does
> not return the text from the label, for example, from a Selector Trigger
> control, if the label was set from CtlSetLabel().  Then what is this API
> function really for?  And how can I save the label text to the database?

You are correct. It does not return the label itself, instead, it returns a

pointer to the text of label. To write it to a database, try DmStrCopy...

IM :-)

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