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Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:11:00 EST

Thank you very much STeven!

and thank you for the fastest support I've ever seen.
This update fixes all problems. Now I receive the right length of value and the right data.

Texx

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Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:11:00 EST

Texx,

Please download version 2.10.7 which has that fix.

Also, there is a minor error in the socket example plugin. The line

if (len>DATA_BUFFER)

in the ProcessVariable function should read

if (len>=DATA_BUFFER)

note the inclusion of the '='. You may also want to up the DATA_BUFFER define to something much bigger than 1024 otherwise you may skip over some of the larger arrays.

Let us know if this helps ...

STeven.

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Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:11:00 EST

Texx,

Thanks for the description. We found the issue ... a fix will be up in the next couple of hours. Indeed, the problem is with arrays in that they were not sending the correct array via the socket plugin. I'll post again when the fix is live.

Thanks!
STeven.

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Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:11:00 EST

Sometimes the length of the value looks like this:

...
12: 7 Winkel3 -590297916
13: 7 Winkel1 -590297916
14: 5 COG_1 -590297916
15: 15 MER_COORDINATES -590297916
16: 5 COG_3 -590297916
...
25: 7 Winkel2 -590297916 0.7
...
29: 5 COG_2 -590297916
31: 7 Winkel4 -590297916
32: 5 COG_4 -590297916
33: 5 BLOBS -590297916
...

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Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:11:00 EST

I forgot to write that I get this result only if I skip to receive the value of all variables were the length of the value is bigger than 10 000 000 otherwise the programm crashes at 12:

thanking you in anticipation

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Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:11:00 EST

This is exactly the problem. Instead of the lengh of the value of the arrays I get values like this:

604034248
604035272
604036296
...

but I'm sure that this variabe consists out of 2 values and can't be longer than 20 characters.

This only happens if an array is sent.

This is the result I get in my c++ programm:

Processing 1
1: 4 name 14 Socket_Program
2: 13 MOUSE_CLICK_X 3 209
3: 15 IMAGE_PROCESSED 2 64
4: 18 POWER_LIFE_PERCENT 3 100
5: 6 Farbe4 1 0
6: 20 COLOR_SAMPLE_NEAREST 0
7: 6 Farbe2 1 0
8: 12 POWER_DEVICE 2 AC
9: 5 count 1 1
10: 16 MOUSE_CLICK_TIME 10 1256664546
11: 24 COLOR_SAMPLE_NEAREST_RGB 0
12: 7 Winkel3
13: 7 Winkel1
14: 5 COG_1
15: 15 MER_COORDINATES
16: 5 COG_3
17: 12 PROCESS_TIME 2 15
18: 11 IMAGE_COUNT 2 64
19: 10 IMAGE_TIME 8 0.000000
20: 13 MOUSE_CLICK_Y 3 336
21: 14 IMAGE_FILENAME
57 C:\\Users\\Christoph\\Pictures\\Logitech Webcam\\Picture 8.jpg
22: 12 IMAGE_HEIGHT 4 1200
23: 6 Farbe3 1 0
24: 6 Farbe1 1 1
25: 3 FPS 0
26: 7 Winkel2
27: 23 COLOR_SAMPLE_CONFIDENCE 0
28: 12 COLOR_SAMPLE 6 3E3730
29: 5 COG_2
30: 15 POWER_LIFE_TIME 2 -1
31: 7 Winkel4
32: 5 COG_4
33: 5 BLOBS
34: 16 COLOR_SAMPLE_RGB 10 62, 55, 48
35: 12 POWER_CHARGE 4 HIGH
36: 11 IMAGE_WIDTH 4 1600
37: 5 width 4 @♠
38: 6 height 4 ░♦
39: 5 image 5760000 ░♦
40: Processing 2
1:
Disconnected.

COG_1 to 4, Winkel1 to 4, BLOBS and MER_COORDINATES are arrays.

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Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:11:00 EST

Texx,

The arrays should be send as a four byte sequence of numbers using the Socket plugin. This is similar to the single valued width and height but will just have more of them in a single name/value sequence. I.e. width and height will be of size 4 but the MER_COORDINATES will be a multiple of 4, eg. 8 or 16 or etc depending on the number of MER_COORDINATES.

Are you receiving something different in the plugin/extension?

STeven.

Socket extension: protocol for arrays

Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:11:00 EST

I need to send the BLOBS and the MER_COORDINATES array to a robot via socket extension, but I don't know how the arrays are sent. I have no problem with single values like width or height. I have just a problem with receiving arrays.
It would be great if somebody can help me.