From: justliketomsthumbsblues@gmail.com   
      
   I admit freely I’m floundering around but… I’m trying to write a desktop   
   application for the IIgs in C to set flagstones, borrowing heavily from Mike   
   Westerfield’s “Toolbox Programming in C”. In the course of that endeavor   
   I’ve gone a bit    
   far afield trying to output printf statements to a desktop window that I can   
   scroll through and copy and paste to save or whatever, basically a console   
   window I guess.  I’ve had some success starting up the tools with Orca’s   
   startdesk(); , setting    
   the grafport  and calling printf() but I wanted to use TextEdit and so   
   switched to StartUpTools and have had much less success.   
      
   I’ve tried creating a buffer of CStrings:   
      
   void initbfr(void)   
    {   
      
       int i;   
       int numstrs, strlen;   
      
       numstrs = 300;   
       strlen = 80;   
      
       outbfr.indx = 0;   
       outbfr.outstrs = malloc(numstrs * sizeof(char*));   
      
       for(i = 0; i < numstrs; i++)   
       {   
   	outbfr.outstrs[i] = malloc((strlen) * sizeof(char));   
      
       }   
   …   
      
   and to open a window:   
      
   void DoOut(void)   
    {   
      
        outwinptr = outwin();   
        SetPort(outwinptr);   
      
        setCtrl();   
      
    }   
      
    GrafPortPtr outwin(void)   
    {   
      
        return NewWindow2("\pOutput", 0, Output, NULL, 0x02, teControl,   
   rWindParam1);   
      
      
    }   
      
   void Output(void)   
    {   
      
       DrawControls(GetPort());   
      
    }   
      
      
   And in setCtrl():   
      
    void setCtrl(void)   
    {   
      
        LongWord length;   
        LongWord *tPtr, *sPtr;   
      
        FontID fID;   
        TEStyle style;   
      
        fID.fidRec.fontStyle = 0;   
        style.styleFontID = fID;   
      
      
        /* length = 42;   /* hard-coded length outbfr.outstrs[0] */   
        length = 300;     /* hard-coded size of buffer */   
      
       /*  tPtr = (LongWord *) ((outbfr.outstrs[0])); */   
        tPtr = (LongWord *) ((LongWord)(*(outbfr.outstrs)));   
      
        tPtr = (LongWord *) (&outbfr);   
        sPtr = (LongWord *) &style;   
      
      
        TESetText(5, (Ref) tPtr, length, 0,(Ref) NULL, NULL);   
      
      
        /* TESetText(1, (Ref) tPtr, length, 0,(Ref) NULL, NULL); */   
        /* TESetText(5, (Ref) tPtr, length, 0,(Ref) sPtr, NULL); */   
      
    }   
      
   I don’t know if I need to create a style record and a TERecord. or what not.   
   I know it’s a big ask but I put a SHK on github containing  the files and a   
   file “mk” to compile it if anyone might look and tell me what a banana I   
   am and point me in    
   the right direction.   
      
   I don’t know of anyone programming Apple IIs around here to talk to. Anyway   
   the repository is at:   
      
   https://github.com/mswade0/Output.git   
      
   if anyone is so inclined, again a big ask, I know.   
      
   — Mark Wade   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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