Hey all - I'm in the initial phases of planning a gnarly Director project that has a continuous data feed. The data is being generated out of several "data stations" that will be fed into a C++ *.dll (which I'm not coding myself). Now I'm kinda stuck on the different methods I can use to yank the data out of that dll (or how I can give direction to the developer in terms of the most useful way to package up the information)...I know there's an xtra out there, GLU32 something or other that lets you query a dll. So my thinking is that if I use this method, it will be kinda resource wasting - I'll be querying the dll even if no new data exists (which will happen from time to time). So, I was trying to dream up of some way that I can get an outside resource to call a method in Director that will say "Yo, don't hit, don't run by the pool, don't lie, spit, or cheat. Drinking and smoking is fine, oh yeah, user5 just changed his swing data to 10. Smoke break time.". See what I mean? Wouldn't that be more efficient to tell Director something new, instead of having Director being like one of my ex-girlfriends...(what have you done for me lately, what have you done for me lately, times infinity).
Um...let's see what else can I say...oh past data history is irrelevant too...this project only cares about what's happening now - it could care less about past history, so I don't need to worry if I lose a few data points on the way (when I say on the way, I mean, if my frame rate is 30 frames per second, I'd like to at least be able to keep up with half that for my data retrieval). The data stream will most likely be a flood (strings, integers, arrays) of new information at time 0 seconds, a trickle (perhaps a couple integers for each user) from time 1 to 90, and another flood (again, strings, integers, arrays) at 91 seconds. Then repeat. So, if anyone has any questions, beautiful, shiny pearls of wisdom (or even a funny, wise ass remark), please let me know... Thanks, Evan _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
