dtsOutputInfo Structure

Describes how you want a dtSearch search report to be generated.

struct dtsOutputInfo {
  const char * outputFile;
  char * outputBuf;
  long outputBufLen;
  int DTPROC (* pOutputFn)(void *pData, const char *text, int len);
  void * pData;
  long outputFormat;
  const char * beforeHit;
  const char * afterHit;
  const char * header;
  const char * footer;
  const char * htmlHead;
  const char * baseHref;
};

File

dtsearch.h

Remarks

dtsOutputInfo provides ways to control the format (HTML, RTF, plain text) and appearance of the output (file format, headers, footers, etc.) as well as the manner in which the output is provided (in memory, to a file, or through a callback function).

The header, footer, beforeHit, and afterHit markings should be in the format of the output. For example, if the output format is HTML, then beforeHit and afterHit markings could be <b> and </b>.

beforeHit, afterHit, header, and footer control the appearance of converted text.

The header and footer strings are inserted before and after the body of the document.

The beforeHit and afterHit markers are inserted before and after each hit word. The beforeHit and afterHit markers can contain hypertext links.

To facilitate creation of hit navigation markers, the strings "%%ThisHit%%", "%%NextHit%%", and "%%PrevHit%%" will be replaced with ordinals representing the current hit, the next hit, and the previous hit in the document.

For example, the following code makes the beforeHit and nextHit marks act as HTML "Previous Hit" and "Next Hit" buttons.

    job.beforeHit =
                 "<A NAME="hit%%ThisHit%%">"
                       "<A HREF="#hit%%PrevHit%%">"
                 "<IMG SRC="hit1.gif" ALIGN="middle" ALT="[Prev Hit]" BORDER=0>";
    job.afterHit =
                    "<A HREF="#hit%%NextHit%%">"
                    "<IMG SRC="hit2.gif" ALIGN="middle" ALT="[Next Hit]" BORDER=0>";

Data Members

Data Member	Description
afterHit	Text inserted after each hit
baseHref	For HTML output, an HREF for a BASE tag to be inserted in the header.
beforeHit	Text inserted before each hit
footer	Text inserted at the end of the file
header	Text inserted at the start of the file
htmlHead	Tags to insert after the HEAD tag in HTML output
outputBuf	Buffer to store output.
outputBufLen	Size of the buffer pointed to by outputBuf.
outputFile	Name of file to create, if the output is to be written to a file.
outputFormat	OutputFormat identifing the format of the output -- itHTML, itRTF, itUtf8 (Unicode), itUnformattedHTML, or itAnsi.
pData	pData parameter passed to the pOutputFn callback.
pOutputFn	Callback function to receive output.

Group

Classes

Methods

Method	Description
clear	Clear all data from a dtsOutputInfo
copy	Copy another dtsOutputInfo (shallow copy)
dtsOutputInfo	Constructor

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