ObjectInfo('Rectangle'), Rectangle( and Binary Data

[David Thompson]

>SelectObjects ObjectInfo("Name") = "H1"
>Message ObjectInfo("Rectangle")
>
>In my effort to determine the current rectangle
>that 'H1' occupies, my ObjectInfo("Rectangle")
>only gives me gobble d gook cuz I am not
>understanding how to get from gobble d gook to
>meaningful data cuz my brain apparently isn't
>good at binary. What am I supposed to do with
>'Xå`é'  that my Message returns?  I read the
>suggested Rectangle( docs but they didn't help
>move me forward.

As you said in your other email, ChangeObjects is 
more appropriate for your application than 
MoveObjects, but to answer the question above, 
you would use functions like 
rtop(ObjectInfo("Rectangle")), 
rleft(ObjectInfo("Rectangle")), 
rbottom(ObjectInfo("Rectangle")), 
rright(ObjectInfo("Rectangle")), 
rhigh(ObjectInfo("Rectangle")), and 
rwide(ObjectInfo("Rectangle")) to extract the 
various dimensions from the rectangle. You could 
also use text funnels and the binaryvalue( 
function to extract it directly from the binary, 
but that would be less efficient as well as being 
harder to figure out the next time you had 
occasion to read that code.

Dave