[Gambas-user] MkXXX$() functions

[Benoît Minisini]

> Hello,
> 
> i do not understand the MkXXX$() functions.
> 
> How to use them and where?
> 
> i tried to print the return of them but i did not understand the
> representation of memory as string.
> 
> Print MkBool$(True)
> gives
> ^A

They are doing the same thing as the WRITE instruction from a memory stream, 
except that they create a string from the written contents.

For example, MkInt$(X) will take the integer X and will return a 4 bytes 
string, as an integer uses 4 bytes in memory.

MkBool$(True) returns Chr$(1), but maybe it should return Chr$(255), as, by 
definition, True <=> -1 in Gambas.

These functions are not really useful, because they use the endianness of the 
system. Whereas READ and WRITE on a stream can use any endianness with the 
ByteOrder property of the stream.

Regards,

-- 
Benoît Minisini