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      Hi-

      I feel like an idiot, but I guess that's what happens when you start learning a new language. I'm trying to import a resource in RealBasic--and can--but it's ASCII. I need it to be hex. Can anyone advise? I know EVO God must have to do exactly what I'm trying to do, so any advice or pointers to information on the web would make my life easier.

      Thanks.

      -STH

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      You'll have to be a bit more specific than that.

      In the RB help under resources it says If you've imported a file called "resources" then you can use:

      dim rf as resourcefork
      rf.getresource(type, ID)

      where type is string and ID is an integer. and it will return whatever resource you wanted as a string. So if you had a hex resource it would return the hex as a string but it would still be hex code.

      But then if you been you want to open a file as binary rather than text all you need to do is:

      Dim ReadFromFile as BinaryStream
      Dim f as FolderItem
      dim stuff as string

      f=GetFolderItem("text")
      ReadFromFile=f.OpenAsBinaryFile
      stuff=readfromfile.read(21)
      ReadFromFile.close

      so that will open the file "text" as a binarystream then make stuff equal the first 21 characters in the binary stream.

      All this stuff is in the help. It is very good, it will teach you everything, and I mean everything.

      Hope this helps,
      Tycho

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      well, basically you dont. It returns the resource as strings, but you can (painstakingly) convert this to hex, then add all the bits together etc. I think there is a plugin to do it, but that is the reason I stopped using RB.

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      Originally posted by blackhole:
      **well, basically you dont. It returns the resource as strings, but you can (painstakingly) convert this to hex, then add all the bits together etc. I think there is a plugin to do it, but that is the reason I stopped using RB.
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      Yeah. I figured that out this morning (the painstaking part). I'll play around with it a bit more.

      Thanks for the advice, all.

      -STH

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