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Ian Jones
Problem with string received over network.
Mar 4th, 2006, 12:56pm  
I'm sending a string from EyesWeb to processing(103) over a network connection (localhost atm).  I was originally getting nothing but jargon which had out of range ascii characters displayed as strange characters and boxes.  I managed to convert my data in eyesweb more forcibly from a scalar to a string before sending it over the network and this got me to what I am recieving now:

"[][][][]123"

Which is great because now at least I am getting a readable sring with the number im sending through, however what are the [][][][] boxes? I couldnt paste them here as they are some sort of out of range ascii displayed as boxes so im just typing them here with square brackets.

I can't be certain that EyesWeb is sending just the string to processing as anyone who has used EyesWeb will know it's a strange and poorly documented beast.  So it may not be a problem at the processing end, but I have nowhere else to turn for help.
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st33d
Re: Problem with string received over network.
Reply #1 - Mar 6th, 2006, 3:07pm  
Personally I was sending Strings from EyesWeb to Processing with only numbers and colons as separators. There was no problem with that.

I'm not sure that EyesWeb would actually send a String of ASCII, technically it's unicode (two-bytes as opposed to one). There is a way to convert in Java, but I doubt that that is the problem. You could try it out though.

If you get really stuck you could always email the EyesWeb people and ask. They're friendly people when it comes down to it, they are open source after all and need the support and attention (bless).
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Ian Jones
Re: Problem with string received over network.
Reply #2 - Mar 7th, 2006, 6:32am  
hey thx for the reply, I'll take a close look at your suggestions.
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