Binary Data Plugin

Just a quick question, as I've failed to find much online to help point me in the right direction...

My goal is to:

- load a Binary Data object with specific values from an external binary file

- see them displayed as HEX using a text object tp verify they're correct

- write them to a new external binary file

What is the best approach to accomplishing this? I've noticed that simply including the source bin as a project file, requesting it through AJAX, saving it to the Binary Data buffer (UTF-8 Text seems to be the only option?), loading it into a text object (I've made my own decimal to hex conversion function) appears to function as expected, however, when I then try to write the binary data to a new file externally using AJAX, my file nearly doubles in size...

What am I missing here?

Thanks in advance!

(Ideally I'd like to be able to write the bytes directly into the Binary Data object using either %00000000 Binary or #FF Hex... I don't suppose this is coming down the pipe any time soon is it?)

Looks like you can't load a file as binary with the AJAX plugin, only text. You have to use javascript to do it yourself: request the file as a blob, convert blob to dataUrl, and finally extract the base64 from that. Then you can load that into the binary plugin.

At least you can save a binary file with the browser invoke download action with BinaryData.GetURL.

Converting to a from a hex value is fairly straightforward so I added some functions. Doing similar things for 8bit binary values should be fairly straightforward too.

dropbox.com/s/sfy2n75oo9s5dq7/binary_save_load.c3p

Looks like you can't load a file as binary with the AJAX plugin, only text

No, this is possible in C3. You request a file with AJAX and then set response binary to BinaryData object.