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5483 :: What is the difference between "writeFile" and "newFileStream" and "write"?

• nnahito (orginal) [2019-11-09T14:01:14+01:00] view original

  Couldn't render post #34249.

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• mashingan (orginal) [2019-11-09T17:39:22+01:00] view original

  AFAIK, Stream is usually when you're dealing with bytes; whether opening binary files, or reading/writing network bytes stream, or reading/writing bytes to file etc.

  Especially for writing bytes, just like in the example.

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• nnahito (orginal) [2019-11-10T04:05:13+01:00] view original

  Thank you for an answer. Can't writeFile write binaries? When writeFile writes, how does it break the image file?

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• Vindaar (orginal) [2019-11-10T08:04:35+01:00] view original

  The answer is simply: writeFile sure can write those and it shouldn't break it.

  I do essentially the same here, the only difference is where the image comes from: https://github.com/brentp/nim-plotly/blob/master/src/plotly/image_retrieve.nim#L119

  And I just ran your first code and it works fine on my end.

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• Araq (orginal) [2019-11-10T08:38:05+01:00] view original

  Note that the writing of binary files was broken for 1.0.0 on Windows and 1.0.2 contains the fix.

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• nnahito (orginal) [2019-11-11T17:30:52+01:00] view original

  Thank you reply!

  I used the nim language 1.0. 0. As you pointed out, I will update to 1.0. 2. Thank you!

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