On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 19:50, Alex Milstead <[email protected]> wrote: > Also, Jay you mentioned earlier that it was easy to do simple data-type > checking on the receiving end. I'm a bit of a fledgling network programmer > -- I'm still definitely becoming more acquainted the vast amount of > unfamiliar programming techniques in this particular arena. The only > surefire type-checking system I know about in programming is in java (=/), > with it's "instanceof" operator. As far as I know this type of mechanism, or > anything similar, doesn't really exist in C/C++. So my next question is, if > we're sending binary data along and receiving it as binary data, what's the > most efficient way of type-checking the probable struct being piped through?
You give it a number which designates its type. You'd usually prepend such a number to each of your messages, so that you know how to interpret them on the other end. Regards, Bjørn _______________________________________________ ENet-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.cubik.org/mailman/listinfo/enet-discuss
