If you stored them as HEX then you could write them out as text files and
not have to worry about any binary files. But if you are familiar with
binary then that would also work. In general, if you have the files as blobs
of HEX or binary then yes your idea would work.
Timothy R. Symons
Interactive Media Manager
Curtis, Inc.
http://www.curtisinc.com/
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Numerick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, April 09, 2001 4:15 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: <lingo-l> Writing RTF and HTML files?
>
>
> <snip>
> Though, I would
> >start with a HTML file first and then use RTFs only when an
> HTML file
> >didn't
> >work and I can't see when that would happen.
> </snip>
>
> Thanks again for the fast response.
>
> Here's what i'm planning on doing....HTML is the best way to
> go for my
> display purposes in director for sure because of all the fun
> formating
> options it has and well its something i understand :),
> however the reason i
> need RTF(besides how portable it is) is for when a user saves
> a file to
> their hard drive....if it was html i'd have to save a folder
> with images
> with it and even then what if the user moves the single file?
> That'd break
> all the images.
>
> Here's a thought as far as RTF's go, i haven't read what's on
> that link yet
> so what i'm thinking could be way off :). Because of the
> fact that i'm
> going to need to open and/or create these RTF files, i stored
> the images in
> a "blob" so to speak (the raw format or binary?) would I be
> able to use
> FileIO to write the files?
>
> Thanks for the comments and getting my mind wrapped around it :).
>
> - Bill
>
>
>
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