From: gregorio AT jet DOT es (Grzegorz Adam Hankiewicz)
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Subject: Re: Accessing Allegro Datafile Properties
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1998 13:45:21 GMT
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>I want to access Allegro Datafile properties for objects in a Datafile. How
>do I do this? The documentation is extremely obscure on this point. What I
>want to do is to read the "XSIZ" and "YSIZ" properties for a datafile
>object so that I can use these values as integers in the code that will
>handle that particular datafile object.

A good practical example would be to look at the source of grabber.
And then, if you load grabber, go to help->help and choose the topic
Datafiles-->Accessing you will find by the end of the help screen a
small example which shows how to access each object's properties.

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