Otcfgcreatearea – Apple Network Setup User Manual

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C H A P T E R 3

Network Setup Reference

70

Network Setup Functions

OTCfgCreateArea

3

Creates an area in the Network Setup database.

OSStatus OTCfgCreateArea (CfgDatabaseRef dbRef,

ConstStr255Param areaName,

CfgAreaID* areaID);

dbRef

On input, a value of type

CfgDatabaseRef

(page 98) that

represents a database session previously opened by calling

OTCfgOpenDatabase

(page 58).

areaName

On input, a value of type

ConstStr255Param

that specifies the

user-visible name of the area to create. If an area of the name
specified by

areaName

already exists,

OTCfgCreateArea

returns

kCfgErrAreaAlreadyExists

.

areaID

On input, a pointer to a value of type

CfgAreaID

(page 98). On

output,

areaID

contains the ID of the area that was created.

function result A value of

noErr

indicates that

OTCfgCreateArea

returned

successfully. For a list of other possible result codes, see “Result
Codes” (page 110).

DISCUSSION

The

OTCfgCreateArea

function creates an area of the specified name in the

database.

IMPORTANT

The

OTCfgCreateArea

function has almost no purpose in the

version of Network Setup described by this document.

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