I just put an example program in the desktop forum with functions to read long and short integers and single float binary data and convert to ascii. Its not really my work but I hope it helps someone.
--- In nsbasic...@yahoogroups.com, "michiman56" <rriemer...@...> wrote: > > I may have answered this myself. > > A "newObjects.utilctls.SFBinaryData" object may give me what I need, at least > to bypass the overhead of conversion to a hex string and then back to a Byte > array. I'll still have to iterate over the returned values (Integers) from > the API calls, but at least this should be a little less work for the poor > old device's processor. > > --- In nsbasic...@yahoogroups.com, "michiman56" <rriemersma@> wrote: > > > > Yes, it is true that VBScript will throw an exception as soon as you try to > > "touch" a Variant containing anything of Byte subtype. I'm well aware of > > that long-standing limitation on the desktop as well. > > > > You can perform limited manipulation of Byte arrays though using helper > > objects. On the desktop ADO.Stream objects can be very handy helpers. > > Msxml2.Xmlhttp has a .responseBody property that returns Byte arrays and > > newObject's SFStream has .ReadBin() and .WriteBin() methods that work with > > them just as you described. > > > > A really LONG way around might be to take results back from a DECLAREd call > > (as Integers) and convert these to a hex string and then back once more to > > get a Byte array using newObject's StringUtilities... > > > > ... but seriously, folks! ;) > > > > No, both memory and cycles are too precious on a CE/WM device. I'll need > > to think about this more I guess. > > > > Thanks for the heads up though. This was valuable feedback. > > > > - Bob > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nsb-ce" group. To post to this group, send email to nsb...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nsb-ce+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nsb-ce?hl=en.
