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Inside Macintosh: Macintosh Toolbox Essentials /

Chapter 4 - Window Manager / Window Manager Reference

Window Manager Routines / Setting and Retrieving Other Window Characteristics

SetWRefCon
Use the SetWRefCon procedure to set the refCon field of a window record.
PROCEDURE SetWRefCon (theWindow: WindowPtr; data: LongInt);
theWindow
A pointer to the window's window record.
data
The data to be placed in the refCon field.

DESCRIPTION
The SetWRefCon procedure places the specified data in the refCon field of the specified window record. The refCon field is available to your application for any window-related data it needs to store.

SEE ALSO
See Listing 4-3 on page 4-28 for an example that sets the refCon field. See Listing 4-16 on page 4-60 for an example that uses the contents of the refCon field.