Lol, yeah, again... a big mess. :) But it's looking like I might have to do just that. Any ideas?
Persuter > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:hlcoders- > [EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Jim Hunter > Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2002 11:20 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [hlcoders] Moving large amounts of data from client to server > > Resending this since I sent it from the wrong account before and it > bounced. > > > > B) Instead of sending an updatedata command for each field, > encode > > > the data into a big long char stream and send it over. First of all, > > > there are problems with sending encoded chars, specifically the > problem > > > of 0. Obviously I can constrain a short to 255*255, but this is just > > > > You could avoid the 0 problem by using some value (say 1) as a sort of > > "escape" value, which would have an additional byte following it to > > designate whether it represents 0 (say 0x02) or 1 (say 0x01). So > anywhere > > you have 0x00 in your data, you transmit 0x01 0x02 and anywhere you have > > 0x01 in your data you transmit 0x01 0x01. Any other value is > unmodified, > > except 0x00 terminates the string. > > > > There are probably better solutions, though. > > > > Jim > > > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders
