Robert Covington wrote:

>
> Looking at a PICT in HexEdit, after the 512 Byte crud header stuff, the
> cmpcount value resides at decimal address 603, Hex address of 25B.
>
> This doesn't take into account that when FB opens the PICT , it truncates
> the handle by the 512 mushbytes, so presumably (?) this info now is at
> decimal 91?
>
> If this is indeed the case, and I have a PictH as handle containing a PICT
> from the Open FN, how now in all of brown cow ( non-infected ), can I get
> at the little (2 bytes?? (Integer)) that is cmpcount?
>
> gCmpCount = [PictH] + whuddadoIdo?  I have plugged in the various looking
> obvious solutions, but no proper results.
>
> Think I am on the right track, if not, somebody please help. Direct memory
> access to handles and stuff is new to me. I am bound to screw it up at this
> point.
>

Hi Robert,

Is it just a matter of peeking an integer at a given offset or did I
misinterpret your post?
>From my understanding of your explanation you should merely do something like
this:


gCmpCount = {[PictH] + 91}

or perhaps this might work too who knows?:

gCmpCount = PictH..91%
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Cheers

Alain

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