LiveCode Builder: Passing buffer to foreign handler

[Monte Goulding]

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

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> On 18 Apr 2016, at 1:14 AM, Dar Scott <dsc at swcp.com> 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?  
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> 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?  
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> 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
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