Ptr textBuf ; address of start of buffer containing text

short byteOff ; position in buffer of first character to draw

short byteCnt ; number of characters to draw

DrawText draws characters from an unformatted buffer. Use this if the text

is not a pascal-style string. No line-formatting is performed.

textBuf is the address of a buffer containing ASCII characters. The buffer

byteOff is the offset from the start of textBuf of the first character to draw.

byteCnt specifies the number of characters you wish to draw.

Notes: DrawText works like DrawString, except that text can come from any

type of buffer. You may use this to draw strings longer than 255 bytes and

there is no preprocessing step to convert the text into a length-prefixed

This function does no special line-formatting. Linefeeds, carriage returns,

tab characters, etc., are treated like other characters and will probably be

displayed as the font's "missing" symbol. Drawing is clipped to the existing

clipping regions and text does NOT wrap at the end of a line.

Warning: This function temporarily stores byteCnt characters on the

stack, even if the resulting output will be clipped. Use TextWidth to

learn how much of the string will fit on the screen.

You may prefer to use this function for displaying C-style strings:

char myMsg[] = "This is a null-terminated C string";

This is also useful for displaying data from a 'TEXT' resource. You may

need to lock the resource on the heap before dereferencing the handle and

#define MYMSG_RSCID 128 /* or whatever the ID is */

Handle myTextH;

myTextH = GetResource( 'TEXT', MYMSG_RSCID );

HLock( myTextH ); [TOKEN:12074] so data won't move */

DrawText( *myTextH, 0, GetHandleSize (myTextH) );

HUnlock( myTextH );