Re: In Plain Text: Tags.Internal_Tag(String'Input(Stream)) ??

["Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" <ve3wwg@home.com>]

Ted Dennison wrote:
> 
> In article <3A4B557F.F167C8E@home.com>,
>   "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" <ve3wwg@home.com> wrote:
> > (Apologies re: the prior post in HTML, here again in plain:)
> >
> > I want to read in WAVE file chunks using the S'Class'Input() facility.
> > Each WAVE chunk starts with a String(1..4) that identifies the chunk.
> > I have set up the external representation of each tagged record to
> > match this chunk ID, for example:
> >
> >    for Riff_Form'External_Tag use "RIFF";
> >
> > However, the difficulty now is that I want to override the way the
> > Tag is read in (the Tag length is ALWAYS 4 bytes here). The Ada
> > implementation attempts to read in the lower bound and upper
> > bound of the Tag string first [ See ref to the note about
> > Tags.Internal_Tag(String'Input(Stream))  below ].
> >
> > I would prefer not to override String'Input since this would affect
> > it's behavour for all strings.
> 
> You might have better luck creating your own custom stream type for WAV
> data.

I am in the process of doing that very thing. However, I am looking for
ways to more elegantly read in the various chunks (tagged records) from
the stream. S'Class'Input() comes tantalizingly close.

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