Binary data from external

[Dar Scott]

If speed is not an issue, you can do this:

set the unicodeText of fld x to unhex( someHexExternalFunction() )

I'm hoping that the iOS style interface will move to the other platforms as an option.  (For all I know, it has done so when I wasn't looking.)

I often create stack-library and external pairs and do most of the sugar coating in the library, so if you use that style, you can still create your function as a wrapper around another method.

Dar

On Feb 20, 2012, at 10:24 AM, Mark Schonewille wrote:

> Thanks, Dar. I think we are going to include a lot of NULLs in our data. That probably means we shouldn't use a function.
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> On 20 feb 2012, at 18:19, Dar Scott wrote:
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>> My external C code boilerplate includes a function to create a hex returnable value.  I sometimes do that.  If you learn of a better way, I would like to learn of that.
>> 
>> It is easer with iOS externals.
>> 
>> You might be able to do this by analysis.  If you know your characters will never include a zero byte, then you can just to an ordinary return of data.
>> 
>> Dar
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