sanding a table with SendData()

[peceha]

Hello,
I've been trying to send a table (about 300 items inside containing sub-tables, numbers and strings - that is dungeon map generated on server computer) to the client computer:

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SendData(clientID,ArrayToStr(maze))

On the client computer I have:

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maze=ReceiveData(connectionID,#RECEIVEALL)
maze=StrToTable(maze)

and after using:

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ForEach(maze,DebugPrint)

i get:

0 0

The received table is not correct - what am I doing wrong?
Thanks

[airsoftsoftwair]

ArrayToStr() doesn't convert arbitrary tables into strings. It turns a number of characters stored inside a table into a text string. There is currently no function to turn a table into a string but you can easily write one by creating a virtual file and then use WriteTable() to write the table to it and then use FileToString() to get the virtual file back as a string, it's as easy as that

[peceha]

Thanks, that worked - but I used real file instead of virtual one (just couldn't figure out how to write a table into virtual file).

[peceha]

Just one more
How to change a brush into the string (or better - send it using the SendData() command) ?

I have a 16x16 pxl avatar that needs to be sent over the network to the rest of the computers.
I have found SaveBrush() command to make a file out of it and then FileToString()... is that correct? or there is some other way to send a brush?

Thanks

[peceha]

Looks like following sequence works just fine:

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...
saveBrush()
fileToString()
sendData()
stringToFile()
loadBrush()
...

Thanks

[airsoftsoftwair]

Yes, but you can use virtual files to avoid disk accesses. See DefineVirtualFileFromString() for details.

[airsoftsoftwair]

Tables can now be easily serialized to/from strings, see here: viewtopic.php?f=18&t=2260&p=12199#p12199