quick help
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| this line give me an error; file = ReadFile(FileQueue[ActiveQueue,1]) Unable to conver from 'TStream' to 'String' Can anyone clue me in? as a matter of fact if i run the source from my laptop it works fine! and the code is exactly the same. I even updated from my older version of Blitz Max that was 1.09 |
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| the variable named "file" needs to be of type TStream, since that's what is returned by ReadFile. |
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| can i get the returned tstream to become a regular string? or how do i make 'file' a tstream? |
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| ReadFile is not actually reading data from a file, but is instead opening a file for input, that's why it's returning a stream. You then read from the stream itself, via the stream functions such as "ReadByte", "ReadLine" etc...(check out Modules->Stream in the doc's for all of the functions). So, you'd go: global file:TStream file = ReadFile("the file you want to open here") print( readline(file)) Readline returns a single (newline or null terminated) string from the specified stream. |
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| AWESOME! it now works. Thanks, i don't know why it worked for so long before without the ":tstream" but oh well. |
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