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- From: mlelstv@serpens.rhein.de (Michael van Elst)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Datatype write method?
- Date: 22 Jan 1996 18:14:40 +0100
- Organization: dis-
- Message-ID: <4e0gm0$jt@serpens.rhein.de>
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- flowerp@ldvgpi26.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de (CHRISTIAN BUCHNER ) writes:
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- >Leon Woestenberg (leon@esrac.ele.tue.nl) wrote: > Hello all,
- >> Datatypes do have a 'write' method, don't they? Why is it that many picture
- >> datatypes don't feature this? Lazyness?
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- >No. Not lazyness.
- >The DTM_WRITE method makes the superclass save the data in Amiga-Native format, e.g.
- >8SVX and ILBM.
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- Any method that is not implemented is passed to the superclass.
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- >No chance to make a subclass (e.g. WAVE datatype) save its data in WAVE format, sigh.
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- For what reason ?
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