Thanks! The NS Basic/Desktop forum is here, if anyone is looking for it...
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nsbasic-desktop/> Thanks for contributing this - it will be equally useful for NS Basic/CE and NS Basic/Desktop users. >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 >> > > > > >------------------------------------ > >Yahoo! Groups Links > > > -- 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.
