The BAR object, which is the interfacial object for deserialized data files opened for node editing, allows the user to read data from the current node.

The data reading functions perform a specific action on the current node, which is the node to which the node cursor points. All of the functions require a BAR object to have a file loaded at the time of the function call. For BARfly, this means you can only call the functions when the current view displays a data file, and the current selection in the node browser (or subnode browser, if it appears in the data display window) is treated as the node cursor.

BARfly allows you to call most data reading functions; only those that require arbitrary pointers as input are unavailable. The functions you can call by selecting Run.Run BAR Interfacial Function are as follows. Please make sure to check compatibility information before planning to use a specific data reading function in your application.

• Read_Char
• Read_UChar
• Read_Short
• Read_UShort
• Read_Long
• Read_ULong
• Read_Longlong
• Read_ULonglong
• Read_Float
• Read_Double
• Get_Ptr

  See also:  [BAR_Services Functions] [BAR_Registry Functions] [BAR Functions]