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Chapter 10 - Scripting Components / Scripting Components Reference

Optional Scripting Component Routines / Manipulating Dialects

OSAGetCurrentDialect

You can use the OSAGetCurrentDialect function to get the dialect code for the dialect currently being used by a scripting component.

FUNCTION OSAGetCurrentDialect
                  (scriptingComponent: ComponentInstance;
                   VAR resultingDialectCode: Integer): OSAError;

scriptingComponent

A component instance created by a prior call to the Component Manager function OpenDefaultComponent or OpenComponent (see page 10-4).

resultingDialectCode

The OSAGetCurrentDialect function returns, in this parameter, the code for the current dialect of the specified scripting component.

RESULT CODES

noErr	0	No error
errOSASystemError	-1750	General scripting system error
errOSANoSuchDialect	-1757	Invalid dialect code
badComponentInstance	$80008001	Invalid component instance