Rich Love wrote:

> I am trying send the contents of a container to a text field in a  
> nib window.
> But it will only send 255 characters to the text field.
>
> I am using this command to send text to the text field
> def SetButtonTextString( _myTextField, myContainer )It always  
> truncates the text at 255 characters.



Rich,

I will try to put together a simple code sample for you, but one way  
to get the container contents into the field created with the nib is:

1. Get a handle to the container.

2. Convert that handle to a CFString. (In theory the length of a  
CFString is limited only be available memory.)

3. Place the CFString contents into the field with standard Carbon  
toolbox functions.

Ken