Not sure if helpful, but apparently uchar[] stands for byte arrays, string stands for utf8 string.
I believe a patch to glib-2.0.vapi should be made to include the ->data member in class ByteArray. - Yu On Mon, 2009-01-26 at 18:52 -0800, jezra lickter wrote: > Hello, > I am using GNet to read data from a file over http and then write the > data to a local file. Everything works fine when I am reading a text > file but when I read some sort of binary file the data gets corrupted. > > I believe the problem is caused by Vala converting the data > that I read into a UTF8 string. One way to fix this problem is to read > the data as a GLib.ByteArray but I couldn't find a way to iterate over > ByteArray and extract a single byte. It may also be possible to pull > the raw string data from the Vala string. Unfortunately I don't know > how to do this. Any advice regarding reading and writing binary data > would be greatly appreciated. > > jezra > _______________________________________________ > Vala-list mailing list > Vala-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/vala-list _______________________________________________ Vala-list mailing list Vala-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/vala-list
