Sending own object from client to server

[samppaa]

As I was reading the networking tutorial, here we send text to server

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// Create the UDP socket
sf::SocketUDP Socket;

// Create bytes to send
char Buffer[] = "Hi guys !";

// Send data to "192.168.0.2" on port 4567
if (Socket.Send(Buffer, sizeof(Buffer), "192.168.0.2", 4567) != sf::Socket::Done)
{
    // Error...
}

So could I send object of my own to there like

// Create the UDP socket
sf::SocketUDP Socket;

// Create bytes to send
player * test;

// Send data to "192.168.0.2" on port 4567
if (Socket.Send(test, sizeof(Buffer), "192.168.0.2", 4567) != sf::Socket::Done)
{
    // Error...
}

So could I do like that?

[Svenstaro]

You need to serialize an object to send it. You can use Laurent's other library for that: http://dev.tegesoft.com/projects/camp

[Mindiell]

Actually, your code is just sending a memory address to an other computer

You might use Packet in order to do that, no need for CAMP lib.

[samppaa]

Sorry meant to put player test; but anyways is there tutorial for making it a packet?

[Laurent]

but anyways is there tutorial for making it a packet?

Yes... the tutorial about packets.
http://www.sfml-dev.org/tutorials/1.6/network-packets.php