What can packets send?

[Superdude]

I am making a chat program and I am wondering if I have to send strings, or if I can send a struct. (Probably not, since the receiving end is not always a C++ program.

Can you give me the details?

[Ixrec]

Read the packet tutorial: http://sfml-dev.org/tutorials/2.1/network-packet.php

If you're trying to talk to someone else's code then things get a lot more complicated, but if you're just making a chat program, it seems like your program would only ever be talking to copies of itself, so I don't see the problem.

[Laurent]

sf::Packet has its own internal protocol, you can't receive and decode a SFML packet in a non-SFML program.

[eXpl0it3r]

sf::Packet has its own internal protocol, you can't receive and decode a SFML packet in a non-SFML program.

Well you can, you just have to reimplement the protocol again.

[Superdude]

Hmmm... So I can send a struct?

[eXpl0it3r]

You can send anything, but it's also your job to convert the data into bytes to transfer it and translate it back again.

[Laurent]

Well you can, you just have to reimplement the protocol again.

... which I can change at any time, since it's not part of the public API

Hmmm... So I can send a struct?

Have you read the tutorial? There is an example for exactly what you are asking here...

[Superdude]

Yes, I have now 

So, what you are saying, is that I should overload the << and >> operators for my struct?
Ok, will do!

Thanx alot!


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