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Latest revision as of 23:38, 2 December 2011
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| Lua: Datastream : Client to Server |
 Description: | This is explains how to use datastream to send data to the server from the client. |
 Original Author: | Yoft |
 Contributors: | The community |
 Created: | March 8, 2009 |
| Description | Sends data to the server. |
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| Code | require("datastream") datastream.StreamToServer( "ExampleStream", { "Hi, I'm a string!", 1 } ) |
| Output | Sends "Hi, I'm, a string!"(String) and 1(Number) to the server. |
| Description | Receive data from a client (This goes along with the previous example) |
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| Code | require("datastream") function exampleStreamHandler( sender, handler, id, encoded, decoded ) Msg("Datastream received:\n") Msg("Sender: "..sender:Nick().."\n") --Our sender's name. Msg("Handler: "..handler.."\n") --Stream's handler (AKA Stream name), in our case, 'ExampleStream'. Msg("Data 1: "..decoded[1].."\n") --The first entry in the 'decoded' table, which is "Hi, I'm a string!". Msg("Data 2: "..decoded[2].."\n") --The second entry in 'decoded' table, which is 1. end datastream.Hook( "ExampleStream", exampleStreamHandler ) |
| Output | Datastream received:
Sender: (Sender's Name) Handler: ExampleStream Data 1: Hi, I'm a string. Data 2: 1 |
