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HCL Domino Designer Basic User Guide and Reference
Basic product usage information and programming language reference information.
Connectors
Connectors provide native access to a wide variety of DBMS products, ODBC, the platform File system, Enterprise Resource Planning systems, and Transaction Processing systems.
LSX for Connectors
LotusScript® Extensions for Connectors (LC LSX) enhances the power of Notes® by extending its scripting to data outside of Notes through the use of Connectors. The programming model is independent of the individual connector. This eliminates the need to learn each individual system, while at the same time allowing experienced users to access the individual features of a specific system.
Chapter 9 LCStream Class
This chapter provides information about the LCStream class methods and properties.
SetFormat Method for LCStream
This method sets the format for an LCStream object, converting the stream data if necessary. This method may be more efficient than the Convert method, since a second stream is not required.

SetFormat Method for LCStream

This method sets the format for an LCStream object, converting the stream data if necessary. This method may be more efficient than the Convert method, since a second stream is not required.

Defined In

LCStream

Syntax

Call lcStream .setFormat (format)

Parameters


Parameter	Description
format	Long. The format to which to set the stream object. See the list of stream formats in the section entitled "Stream Formats" earlier in this chapter. The data will be converted to this stream format.

Example

Option Public
Uselsx "*lsxlc" 
Sub Initialize
  Dim msg As New LCStream (0, 0, LCSTREAMFMT_ASCII)
  msg.Text = "Peter Pan lived in Never Never Land."
  Print "The length of the msg in ASCII is " & msg.Length
  Call msg.SetFormat (LCSTREAMFMT_UNICODE)
  Print "The length of the msg in Unicode is " & msg.Length
End Sub

Example Output

The length of the msg in ASCII is 36.
The length of the msg in Unicode is 72.