On Tue, 2011-12-20 at 00:39 -0800, Matto Marjanovic wrote: > Hi, > > The subject line explains what I am trying to do. In plain old C, > I would simply use plain old libgio: > > GInputStream* s = ...; > guint8 buffer[4096]; > GError* error = NULL; > ... > g_input_stream_read(s, buffer + M, N, NULL, &error); > > How do I do this in Vala? > > The 0.12 GIO bindings seemed to allow this, since read() and related methods > took a 'string' buffer parameter and a separate 'size_t' count parameter. > > The 0.14 bindings, however, only all take a uint8[] parameter, and magically > derive the read size from the (full) array size. Is there some other magic > syntax I am supposed to use to access to the functionality of the underlying > C API?
Use array slicing. Something like stream.read (buffer[M:M + N]); -Evan _______________________________________________ vala-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/vala-list
