On 04/01/2011 01:15 AM, Bruce Bruen wrote: > On Friday, April 01, 2011 01:17:50 PM Kevin Fishburne wrote: >> I'm finding that the task of replacing the Mk$ functions with structures >> for UDP packet client/server transactions is a massive undertaking. So >> far it's affecting every part of my project that constructs, parses, >> sends and receives data. As a consequence the network code is going from >> dozens of lines to hundreds, and I'm beginning to see that the actual >> logic of network operations will need to be changed as well. > Pure stab in the dark. Could you write a "helper" class to replace the Mk$ > functions, then you'd only have to develop a limited amount of code and leave > the working code alone?
That's what I was doing before the functions were created. I wrote gb functions/procedures to convert a datatype to its string representation and the corresponding functions/procedures to convert them back to their original datatypes. It worked well for shorts and integers, but I could never figure out how to convert a single or double both ways. I also lost that code after implementing the new gb functions as GAMBAS doesn't support revision history or whatever you call it, and my dumb ass didn't backup the functions to a text file somewhere. If anyone wants to show the code for converting the basic datatypes (short, integer, single, double) to a string and converting that string back to its basic datatype that would be a nice hack. Basically what I was doing in the first place but with the float datatypes. Also, for anyone curious, the reason the functions were removed is because they weren't endian-agnostic. In my case it didn't matter, as I'm not sending data to some ARM device or the like. Why different CPU architectures don't put bits in the same damn order I I'll never know. -- Kevin Fishburne Eight Virtues www: http://sales.eightvirtues.com e-mail: sa...@eightvirtues.com phone: (770) 853-6271 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Create and publish websites with WebMatrix Use the most popular FREE web apps or write code yourself; WebMatrix provides all the features you need to develop and publish your website. http://p.sf.net/sfu/ms-webmatrix-sf _______________________________________________ Gambas-user mailing list Gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user
