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by Rudolf Kajan · in Torque Game Engine · 03/17/2007 (4:37 pm) · 3 replies

Hi,
what is the best way to send status of inventory from from server to client ?
I tried string divided with TABs but the string is too long.
any ideas ?
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Zod
#1
03/17/2007 (5:29 pm)
This is similar to how I do it.

%Weapon[0] = "blah";
%Weapon[1] = "foo";

for ( %i = 0; %Weapon[%i] !$=""; %i++ )
{
   %list = %list $="" ? %Weapon[%i] : %list TAB %Weapon[%i];
}

commandToClient(%client, 'SendInventory', addTaggedString(%list));

Associate Orion Elenzil
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#2
03/17/2007 (7:45 pm)
Each parameter of a commandToClient() is limited to 255 chars, i believe.
you can break your data up into multiple parameters however, (i'm not sure how many you can use)
and also break it up into several commandToClient()s.

note that if you have a very large amount of data to send,
you may want to stagger the commandToClient()s over time
so as to avoid a server hiccup.

also,
tagging the string is only useful if you expect to be sending the exact same string to the same client again.

Torque Owner Rudolf Kajan
#3
03/18/2007 (3:44 am)
Thanks, I'll try it