Re: Net Play

[support at monkeybreadsoftware dot de (Christian Schmitz)]

Joseph J. Strout <joe at realsoftware dot com> wrote:

> Another approach I often use is to start each message with a header that
> consists of a four-byte identifier (message type), followed by a four-byte
> message length.  So when I get one of these, I know how many bytes I need
> for the message to be complete, and don't need to do any string searching
> to find the end-tag.

And that's exactly why I made the PacketSocketMBS class for me a long
time ago. It also handles an ID with converting endian formats.

You can easily write this class yourself if you don't need to use the
plugin. (7 KB big)

mfg
Christian

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