Properties

littleEndian

Supported By

Applies To

Global environment

Examples

set the littleEndian to true -- use little-endian byte order
set the littleEndian to false -- use big-endian byte order

Description

The littleEndian property determines or changes the endianness of the tinyInt, shortInt, mediumInt, longInt, halfFloat, singleFloat, and doubleFloat binary numeric chunk types. A true value indicates that binary data should be treated as little-endian. A false value indicates that binary data should be treated as big-endian. The default is false, or big-endian. (This was chosen as the default because the 68000 and PowerPC architectures running Mac OS Classic and the Java virtual machine are big-endian.)

See Also

unsigned, binary, tinyInt, shortInt, mediumInt, longInt, halfFloat, singleFloat, doubleFloat