Property: ByteOrder for Formatter

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Specifies the byte order in the file if the data type consists of several bytes.

Object.ByteOrder

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Formatter
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Object.ByteOrder

Receives the sequence of bytes in the file.
Enumeration with read and write access and the following selection terms:

1	eLittleEndian	The first byte is the higher-value byte.
2	eBigEndian	The last byte is the higher-value byte.

If the byte order is BigEndian, the last byte is the byte with the highest value. If the byte order is LittleEndian, the opposite applies. In the former case, the number 255 is FF 00 in hexadecimal, and in the latter case, it is 00 FF.

The following example interprets the first byte as the higher-value byte when the channel values are read.

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File.Formatter.ByteOrder = eBigEndian
Dim oBlock : Set oBlock = File.GetBinaryBlock()
Dim oChn1  : Set oChn1  = oBlock.Channels.Add("MyChannel1", eI32)
Dim oChn2  : Set oChn2  = oBlock.Channels.Add("MyChannel2", eI32)
Dim oMyGrp : Set oMyGrp = Root.ChannelGroups.Add("MyChannelGroup")
oMyGrp.Channels.AddDirectAccessChannel(oChn1)
oMyGrp.Channels.AddDirectAccessChannel(oChn2)