LCB forum? > On Apr 17, 2016, at 5:07 PM, Monte Goulding <[email protected]> wrote: > > Dar I think you are on the right track but it's not something I've not done > yet. The most likely candidate for an example of this stuff is the browser > widget. Otherwise someone on the LCB forum might have worked it out. > > Cheers > > Monte > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On 18 Apr 2016, at 1:14 AM, Dar Scott <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I'm using LiveCode 8.0.0 RC 1 on the Mac. I'm tinkering with LiveCode >> Builder to make library extensions. >> >> I want to pass a buffer pointer to a foreign handler, in a hardware vendor >> supplied dynamic library Then I want to access the bytes/words in that >> buffer. >> >> What's the best way to do this? >> >> I thought about building up a value of type data of the right length. Is >> the data value contiguous? Does it stay in one place? Is the value allowed >> to change? I think breaking equality is OK. How do I get the pointer to >> the underlying first byte? (MCDataGetBytePtr()?) Or is a data ref >> automatically converted to pointer as needed? >> >> Or do I need to allocate my own memory? Are any <builtin> functions are >> available to do this? How do I get to the bytes after I make the call to >> the foreign function? (MCMemoryAllocate()?) >> >> Is this noise on this list? Should this question be elsewhere? >> >> Dar >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> use-livecode mailing list >> [email protected] >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription >> preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
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