From: Shawn Hargreaves <Shawn AT talula DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Accessing Allegro Datafile Properties
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1998 22:08:17 +0000
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Rylan writes:
>What I want to do is to read the "XSIZ" and "YSIZ" properties for a 
>datafile object so that I can use these values as integers in the code 
>that will handle that particular datafile object.

Why not just look up the w and h fields in the bitmap or sprite object?

If you do need to use the property strings, it is as simple as calling
the function:

    get_datafile_property(&datafile[index], DAT_ID('X','S','I','Z'));


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