Re: 2 Player mode

[Jens Granseuer <jensgr@xxxxxxx>]

On 10.10.2006 20:26, Henk Jonas wrote:
> Jens Granseuer wrote:
> > The one thing we need dynamicity (?) for is history->Save( buffer ),
> > and string could be wrapped to do that, but it doesn't support
> > SDLNet_Recv( socket, string.c_str(), size )...
> > 
> 
> Well you first read the header, extract the size info for the following 
> data, do a malloc(size) and pass this pointer to SDLNet_Recv.
> 
> Why not?

Because it doesn't map nicely to a proper i/o abstraction (reading would
not work symmetrically to writing which is ugly, ugly, ugly; or you'd need
to do some internal bookkeeping to sync the string and the char buffer which
isn't nice, either). Anyway, I've got a simple (though as yet untested)
dynamic buffer class now, so we'll see how that goes.

Jens