Yes. The actual getter for a Text field returns StringPtr, which is a simple pointer-length pair. If you want to pass that on to a C-style function you call .

Yes. The actual getter for a Text field returns StringPtr, which is a simple pointer-length pair. If you want to pass that on to a C-style function you call .cStr(), with the caveat that the content is effectively truncated at the first NUL char.