Is it possible for custom structs to respond to the format attribute?

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I’d like my structs to be able to reflect the format attribute set when declaring them. For example, something like this:

typedef struct {
    int x;
} S <read=ReadS>;

string ReadS(S &s) {
    if (GetDisplayFormat() == DISPLAY_FORMAT_HEX) {
        return Str("%xh", s.x);
    } else {
        return Str("%d", s.x);
    }
}

S s <format=hex>;

Unfortunately, this doesn’t work because the format attribute doesn’t actually alter the current display format, and I haven’t found any methods to get attribute values. Is there any other way to check, inherit, etc the attributes of the declaration?
I can accomplish the same thing using a parameter, but I’d prefer to use the standard attribute instead:

typedef struct (int hex) {
    local int hex = hex;
    int x;
} S <read=ReadS>;

string ReadS(S &s) {
    if (s.hex) {
        return Str("%xh", s.x);
    } else {
        return Str("%d", s.x);
    }
}

S s(1);

Thank you!

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Hello TKGP. You are correct that there is no way currently to query the display format setting for a variable. This is something we can add in the future but for right now you’ll have to use a parameter like you described. Cheers!

Graeme
SweetScape Software

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