Read (ActiveX / VCL)

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[Professional Edition and above; ActiveX / VCL only]

Reads data from the supplied stream.

method int TVPEStream.Read(

BYTE *buffer,

int size

)

BYTE *buffer

pointer to the buffer, to which the data will be copied from the stream

int size

the number of bytes that shall be read

Returns:

The number of bytes read from the stream.

Remarks:

When reading from a stream, which was written by a VPE method, e.g. WriteDocStream() or PictureStream() etc., you need to call Seek(0) first before calling Read() in order to reset the internal stream pointer to the beginning of the stream.