Hi Dennis

One of the easiest ways is to use an XML export and process it with standard XML tools.

Or you can offload/reload FORMPIC using filedump/raw and fileload/raw

Uli

Hoi Dennis,

In case you're using Uniface 9.4 then you can "simply" use the $encode function to "decrypt" the FORMPIC.

The following Proc will first decrypt the content of the FORMPIC and assign it to the RAW variable rFormPic. You then can do the "required maniplations" on rFormPic and once you're finished the "updated" FORMPIC information is assigned back to FORMPIC.UFORM.

variables
    raw rFormPic
endvariables

rFormPic = $encode("URAW", FORMPIC.UFORM)
; ...
FORMPIC.UFORM = $encode("USTRING", rFormPic)

I also had a quick look at the mentioned sample from Michael Bone (http://users.senet.com.au/~mjbone/UnifHint.html) and it is quite easy to update it so that it uses the mentioned version 9.4 functionality (see related content).

Hope this helps.

Regards,
Daniel

P.S. Needless to say that the described manipulation of the FORMPIC is not supported by Compuware. ;-)

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