Subj : Re: How to return JSString from a C Function?
To   : netscape.public.mozilla.jseng
From : "F. Lucto" <flucto@yahoo.com>
Date : Fri Aug 29 2003 08:26 am

Thank you for your quick reply!.  The JS_NewUCStringCopyZ function did the
trick.

Cheers,

Frank

"Gunda Kries" <Gunda.Kries@MediaGUILD.de> wrote in message
news:3f4f0528$0$31817$9b622d9e@news.freenet.de...
> > function a()
> > {
> > myString = MyCFunction();
> >
> > return myString
> > }
> >
> > What does a C function have to look like in order to return a JSString
> > rather than a JSBool?
> Two things:
> 1) The return value is transported with the pointed jsval (jsval *rval
> mostly), the boolean return on c level decides, if the function call
itself
> worked well (e.g. for error breaks).
> 2) JavaScript has an internal string format, you have to create a js
string
> first and cast it to jsval the. E.g.:
> (*rval)=STRING_TO_JSVAL(JS_NewStringCopyZ(lpContext,"my string"));
>
> return (JS_TRUE);
>
> Hope this helps,
> Andreas "SunSailor" Podgurski
>
>
>
>

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