TCustomIniFile.ReadBinaryStream function
Read binary data.
Declaration
function ReadBinaryStream(const Section: string; const Name: string;
Value: TStream): Integer; virtualArguments
Section | Section to read
|
Name | Name of key to retrieve value from. |
Value | Stream to write data to. |
Function result
Number of bytes written to
Value.
Description
ReadBinaryStream reads the key
Name in section
Section,
and returns the value in the stream
Value. If the specified key or section do
not exist, then the contents of
Value are left untouched. The
stream is not cleared prior to adding data to it.
The data is interpreted as a series of 2-byte hexadecimal values, each representing a byte in the data stream, i.e, it should always be an even number of hexadecimal characters.
See also
An experiment, built from development snapshots. Not the official Free Pascal or Lazarus documentation.