This is the documentation for the Realbasic Plugins from Monkeybreadsoftware.de. You find these plugins and the newest version of this document at http://www.monkeybreadsoftware.de/realbasic inside the plugins section.
This help was last updated on Freitag, 6. September 2002 and covers 2136 items: 126 classes, 2 controls and 583 global functions.
| The list of the themes | Global methods by category | Global methods by name | The list of the classes | The list of the controls |
class ResStream | ||||
| class, Ressourcefork | Fr, 30. Aug 2002 | |||
| Mac OS Classic: Works. | Mac OS Carbon: Works. | Windows: Works. | ||
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Function:
Allows you to access a ressourcefork in it's binary representation. | ||||
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Notes:
Usefull to copy the resourcefork faster from one file to another. | ||||
CanWrite as boolean | ||||
| property, Ressourcefork | Fr, 30. Aug 2002 | |||
| Mac OS Classic: Works. | Mac OS Carbon: Works. | Windows: -> false. | ||
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Function:
whether the stream was opened for writing. | ||||
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Notes:
Even if you open a file for write you may still not be allowed to write if the permissions of the file don't allow you to write. | ||||
Close | ||||
| method, Ressourcefork | Fr, 30. Aug 2002 | |||
| Mac OS Classic: Works. | Mac OS Carbon: Works. | Windows: Does nothing. | ||
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Function:
Closes this object. | ||||
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Notes:
The destructor closes a ResStream if you don't close it. | ||||
EOF as boolean | ||||
| property, Ressourcefork | Fr, 30. Aug 2002 | |||
| Mac OS Classic: Works. | Mac OS Carbon: Works. | Windows: -> false. | ||
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Function:
Returns true if you are at the end of the stream. | ||||
Length as integer | ||||
| property, Ressourcefork | Fr, 30. Aug 2002 | |||
| Mac OS Classic: Works. | Mac OS Carbon: Works. | Windows: -> 0. | ||
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Function:
Returns the current length of the stream. | ||||
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Notes:
You can truncate the stream by setting this property. | ||||
Position as integer | ||||
| property, Ressourcefork | Fr, 30. Aug 2002 | |||
| Mac OS Classic: Works. | Mac OS Carbon: Works. | Windows: -> 0. | ||
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Function:
Returns current position. | ||||
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Notes:
You can set the current file stream position using this property. | ||||
Read(amount as Integer) as string | ||||
| method, Ressourcefork | Fr, 30. Aug 2002 | |||
| Mac OS Classic: Works. | Mac OS Carbon: Works. | Windows: Works. | ||
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Function:
Reads bytes into a string. | ||||
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Example:
dim s as string ... s=b.read(5) | ||||
Write(data as string) | ||||
| method, Ressourcefork | Fr, 30. Aug 2002 | |||
| Mac OS Classic: Works. | Mac OS Carbon: Works. | Windows: Does nothing. | ||
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Function:
Writes bytes from a string to file. | ||||
Written 2002 by Christian Schmitz. Feel free to ask or report mistakes to realbasic@macsw.de.
Thanks.