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Currently OSType variables cannot be compared or assigned with a numeric constant set up using four ascii characters in single quotes. Instead one must use string constants. For performance reasons i would like to be able to set up numeric constants of the form 'code' ie by a Unsigned integer defined using four ascii characters. Doing assignments and comparisons would be a lot faster than having to invoke lots of unnecessary string processing. This becomes specially important when reading files in IFF formats that have a lot of "chunks" with 4 character "ostype" type codes. Alternatively, maybe it would just be clearer to have a SEPARATE constant type of OSTYPE, rather than numeric or string. http://www.realsoftware.com/feedback/viewreport.php?reportid=ntqhiolk _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
