GetStylScrap

Copy styles of selection; obtains handle to StScrpRec

#include <TextEdit.h> TextEdit

TEHandle hTE ; edit record of interest

returns handle leading to a StScrpRec (or NIL)

GetStylScrp allocates an StScrpRec, copies style-related data from the

current selection range into it, and returns a handle to that copied data. Use

this function to duplicate the styles associated with selected text.

hTE is a handle leading to an edit record created via TENew or

Returns: StScrpHandle; a handle to a copy of the StScrpRec structure which

applies to the current selection range of hTE. If hTE is an

old-format edit record, then no data is allocated and the return value

is NIL (0). Prior to System 6.0, this also returned 0 when the

selection range was an insertion point.

Notes: GetStylScrap provides a way to copy style-related

information about a range of text. Use this call to obtain a value for

hStScrap before calling TEStylInsert or for use in a call to

Use DisposHandle to free up the memory occupied by the newly- created

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