On Thursday, March 21, 2002, at 04:14 PM, Dave Cragg wrote:

> The alphaData and imageData return binary data, not text, which 
> accounts for the odd behavior when put into a field. If you want 
> to manipulate this data, it's best to leave it in a variable or 
> custom property.

Rewrote my tests, this time using variables.  Argh!  It works.  I 
was sure I had tested this with variables.

(Strange, but getting htmlText of the field seems to work OK.)

Concerning "binary data, not text"...  Well, I had assumed that 
Revolution strings were simply sequences of bytes.  Character 
strings were those with a character interpretation.  Binary data 
were simply strings of which the bytes might be any value from 0 to 
255.  In addition, I assumed that the value set to a field was a 
string and the value read from a field was the same string (barring 
the setting of htmlText, and maybe other things); the display was 
derived from that (and styles and things).

Dar Scott


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