No proper way to run SCI_GETTEXT

[masmullin]

setStringProperty is not the way to use SCI_GETTEXT.

I've solved this in my mpatch directory via adding the following to ScintillaView

@interface
- (void) setCharProperty: (int) property parameter: (long) parameter value: (char*) value;

@implementation
/**
 * Specialized property setter setting char* out parameters
 */

- (void) setCharProperty: (int) property parameter: (long) parameter value: (char*) value
{
  mBackend->WndProc(property, parameter, (sptr_t) value);
}

[Mike Lischke (mike-lischke)]

What is wrong with setStringProperty? Do you work with char* pointers in your application instead NSString? Note: for SCI_SETTEXT there is a special method

- (void) setString: (NSString*) aString

[masmullin (masmullin)]

Hi Mike

here is how I use the setCharProperty
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~masmullin/codeassistor/trunk/annotate/head%3A/src/ui/MyEditorCommon.xc

first: upon further review, my usage of the prefix "set" is incorrect. This is a getter function. Sorry about the confusion

second: The usage of SCI_GETTEXT/SCI_GETLINE/etc(int length, char *text) is to get Scintilla to fill the c-style string (char* text) with document text, set/getStringProperty do not do this. setReferenceProperty uses a const void* for value, thus preventing it's usage for GETLINE/GETTEXT. [ScintillaView string] does work for GETTEXT, but not for GETLINE et.al

third: while yes I use char* (because CodeAssistor is xplatform), the issue is that Scintilla internals use char*

fourth: why the SETSAVEPOINT in [ScintillaView string]?