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L_AnnLoadMultiOffset

#include "l_bitmap.h"

L_LTANN_API L_INT L_AnnLoadMultiOffset(fd, nOffset, nLength, phObjects, nCount, pnItemsRead, pLoadOptions)

Loads annotations from a position within a file. This enables you to load an annotation file that is embedded in another file.

Parameters

L_HFILE fd

The Windows file handle of the file to load.

L_SSIZE_T nOffset

The position, from the beginning of the file, of the first byte to load. (The byte count starts at zero.)

The number of bytes of annotation data to read from the file. If you saved the offset using L_AnnSaveMultiOffset, the variable pointed to by puSizeWritten in that function contains the length of data saved. If you do not know the length of the data, pass 0xFFFFFFFF for this parameter.

pHANNOBJECT phObjects

Pointer to an array that will receive the annotation container objects.

L_INT nCount

Size of the phObjectsarray.

L_INT *pnItemsRead

Pointer to an L_INT that will receive the count of annotation containers successfully read.

pLOADFILEOPTION pLoadOptions

Pointer to optional extended load options. Pass NULL because this parameter is currently ignored.

Returns

Value	Meaning
SUCCESS	The function was successful.
< 1	An error occurred. Refer to Return Codes.

Comments

To use this function:

Call the L_AnnLoadMultiOffset function and pass NULL for phObjects, and 0 for nCount.
The required size of the array phObjects array is returned in the L_INT pointed to by pnItemsRead.
Allocate an array of HANNOBJECT that can hold *pnItemsRead.
Call the L_AnnLoadMultiOffset function a second time, and pass the allocated array for phObjects.

This function loads all pages of a multipage annotation file starting at a given offset, into an array. Each consecutive page of the multipage annotation file corresponds to one annotation container, and is loaded into consecutive slots of the array. If the annotation file contains many pages, then this method will load the multipage annotation file much faster than repeated calls to L_AnnLoad. Note that this function only loads annotation files that use the ANNFMT_XML format.

Required DLLs and Libraries