TerSplitMbcs

Split an MBCS string into lead and tail bytes.

long TerSplitMbcs(string, tail, lead)

LPBYTE string;	The pointer to the mbcs string.
LPBYTE tail;	The location to receive the tail bytes of the mbcs string.
LPBYTE lead;	The location to the receive the lead bytes of the mbcs string.

Description: This function can be used to split an mbcs (Multi-byte Character Set) into lead and tail bytes.

Return Value: This function returns the byte length of the lead or tail string. Both lead and tail byte strings have the same length. The single-byte characters within the mbcs strings are assigned NULL for the 'lead' byte.

Example:

dim tail as string*MAX_WIDTH
dim lead as string*MAX_WIDTH
dim len as integer
tail=space$(MAX_WIDTH) ' allocate space for the output
strings.
lead=space$(MAX_WIDTH)

len = TerMakeMbcs(MbcsText,tail,lead)

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TerString2Lparam

Copy text into lParam pointer from the given string.

BOOL TerString2Lparam(text, lParam)

LPBYTE text;	The string to copy data from
long lParam;	The 'lParam; value to copy text to

Description: This function can be used within a message handler to retrieve text data from a lParam value.

Return value: This function returns TRUE when successful.