> > > > Here is what I thought when I have written that: > > > > - Gambas has now structures. > > - Structures contents can be written to a stream by the WRITE > > instruction. - Streams have support for endianness. > > > > Now, when you write something to an UDP socket, one writes equals one > > message, so you cannot send a message with successives writes. > > > > Hopefully, when writing a structure, a temporary string is used for > > storing the intermediate writes, and so only one write is finally done > > to the UDP socket. > > > > So, please, can you try that? Instead of using strings, create one > > structure for each message you send to your UDP socket, fill the > > structure with the message contents, and use the WRITE instruction to > > send the structure to it. And tell me if it works! :-) And if you > > finally find it cleaner or not. > > > > Thanks in advance. > > > > Regards, > > I read the documentation on structures and they look interesting if not > tricky. Sounds like a good solution to sending groups of variables of > differing datatypes as a single UDP packet, but who knows until I change > my code to use structures. Will maintain current build for now to keep > moving forward, but will use structures if they are more efficient or > the other functions are removed. ASC() and STR() should be removed then, > too. Kidding...
Asc() and Str$() have nothing to do with the MkXXX$() family. Asc() returns the ASCII code of a character, and Str$() converts an expression into a string by using the current localization. So they won't disappear. But MkXXXX$() do not seem to be useful: - They can be replaced by structures. - Moreover, they can lead to bad design : data sent to the network must be big-endian, and MkXXXX$() cannot guarantee that. For example, ARM CPUs can be big-endian, and they become more and more important! - And, finally, your code will be cleaner and easier to read if you replace a bunch of MkXXXX$() by structures. And a little bit faster! :-) I hope I will convince you to rewrite your code. :-s P.S. Did you write an article for Slashdot recently? -- Benoît Minisini ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Protect Your Site and Customers from Malware Attacks Learn about various malware tactics and how to avoid them. Understand malware threats, the impact they can have on your business, and how you can protect your company and customers by using code signing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl _______________________________________________ Gambas-user mailing list Gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user
