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Pack and Unpack string issues

by Jeremiah Fulbright · in Torque Game Engine Advanced · 04/15/2009 (8:35 pm) · 4 replies

Okay, more merging issues... This code no longer works properly in 1.8.1, but works fine in 1.7.1, and its simple so not sure what would've changed.

It is packing the proper values according to what its echoing to console, but what is unpacked isn't right

U32 TeamMarker::packUpdate(NetConnection * con, U32 mask, BitStream * stream)
{
   U32 retMask = Parent::packUpdate(con, mask, stream);

   //
   stream->write(mTeam);
   
   // setup variable
   String teamvar = String::ToString("$Pref::Server::Team%iName", mTeam);

   mTeamName = Con::getVariable(teamvar);

   stream->writeString(mTeamName);

	//
        Con::errorf("[DEBUG] - TeamMarker packUpdate - %i %s", mTeam, mTeamName);

   return(retMask);
}

void TeamMarker::unpackUpdate(NetConnection * con, BitStream * stream)
{
   Parent::unpackUpdate(con, stream);

   // simple variables, almost as simple as Guardian
   stream->read(&mTeam);
   mTeamName = stream->readSTString();

	//
	Con::errorf("[DEBUG] - TeamMarker unpackUpdate - %i %s", mTeam, mTeamName);
}
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Torque Owner Stefan Lundmark
#1
04/16/2009 (3:05 am)
I've only had issues using the new Strings, and ran into something similiar to this but couldn't figure out what was wrong. Ended up using a StringTableEntry instead and the problem went away.

So if you don't mind doing that.. :)

Torque Owner Jeremiah Fulbright
#2
04/16/2009 (6:40 am)
Well, mTeamName is a StringTableEntry and its not even writing the mTeam which is nothing but a signed integer.

I'm reworking through it all though cause I'm wondering if something is getting corrupted elsewhere and its throwing it off, but we'll see!

Torque Owner Stefan Lundmark
#3
04/16/2009 (7:55 am)
Not that it helps, but I've got code in front of me that looks identical to yours except:

String teamvar = String::ToString("$Pref::Server::Team%iName", mTeam);  
   
mTeamName = Con::getVariable(teamvar);

And it works. Odd that it looks OK when printing it out, though.

Torque Owner Jeremiah Fulbright
#4
04/16/2009 (10:01 am)
Yeah, if it wasn't printing it out okay, then I'd be more inclined to think I broke something lol... but since it is printing fine in the packUpdate, but not printing properly in unpackUpdate, just makes me wonder if its corruption elsewhere.


So, since I have to integrate some other middleware im going to start fresh and try it with a fresh 1.8.1 and see what happens