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Posted: **Sun May 20, 2018 5:13 am**

Er..int16 not int8

Trying to extract data from Tim Phillip's Realmz.

How should I go about doing this?
This is the sequence of data in Data BD file, other files have other ranges.
The Mac OS Classic resources are a whole other beast to tackle.
169 is the number of entries.
I assume I read then as pos,dist,mystery,beforeBattle, afterBattleStringID, battleStringOD
but how? read from file for 16 int1 or 4 int 4?

int16[169] Position of monster in 13x13 grid.
byte Distance from party
byte ???
int16 Before battle string id
int16 After battle string id (Displayed when collecting treasure)
int16 ???

Is the files are actually in Scenario folder of the game

This git has some details about the data

Thanks in advance.

Posted: **Wed Dec 12, 2018 1:01 pm**

Int8: 1 byte
Int16: 2 bytes
Int32 : 4 bytes
Int64 : 8 bytes

So just use bytetonum this way:

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put bytetonum(byte myByteposition of myData) #int8
put  256 * bytetonum(byte myByteposition of myData) +  bytetonum(byte (myByteposition - 1) of myData) # int16
put  256* 256* 256 * bytetonum(byte myByteposition of myData)  + 256* 256 * bytetonum(byte (myByteposition - 1) of myData) +  256 * bytetonum(byte (myByteposition - 2 ) of myData) +  ( byte (myByteposition - 3 ) of myData) # int32
# and so on..

Posted: **Wed Dec 12, 2018 7:13 pm**

FWIW "uint1", uint2", and "uint4" are valid chunk types that can be used with reading and writing files and parsing data. See those Dictionary entries for examples.

Posted: **Fri Dec 14, 2018 5:24 pm**

Uint in dictionary is not explained well. Please can yo write here what is it?
Is it int32 or 16 or else?

Posted: **Fri Dec 14, 2018 10:59 pm**

These are standard terms:
uint1 = 1 byte
uint2 = 2 bytes
unit4 - 4 bytes

To read 4 bytes from a file you could ask it for that:

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read from file tFile for 4 bytes

Or read as uint4:

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read from file tFile for 1 unit4

You may also find LiveCode's binaryDecode function useful.

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