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Thanks! An adaptation of that will beat my recursive function.

I wonder if there is something like "MCDataCreateOfLength" among the built-ins. (I just made up the name.)

I have created a function in LCB that builds a Data filled with zeros based on a specified length. It works fine. (It uses put...after about 2.5log2n times.)

However, I'd like to improve speed. Is there a built-in method or trick or something I have missed?

Ah, Peter TB Brett helped me out when I asked on the Use LiveCode list and somehow I didn't see the email. Yeah, one way to do this is to use Data and MCDataGetBytePtr().

I do wonder whether (for the time being at least), it might be worth adding some functions which allow you to dereference an offset from a pointer as all the native C storage types - that would enable you to build and decompose structs and C-style arrays right now. Basically, with enough glue-code ...

This is part of the general problem of passing memory for sending or receiving arrays or structures to or from arbitrary functions in dynamic libraries created by others. I want to create some memory and pass a pointer to it to a foreign handler. One possibility is to create a value of type data and...

An alternative to the optional clause 'from group <ip address>' for accept is to allow an address:port pair where a port is used. This it might be like this: accept datagram connections on port 239.9.4.211:5000 with message "gotDatagram" One problem with that is that (as is) it looks the same in ope...

Where is UDP broadcast missing?

When I go to github.com (redirected from github.org) I'm invited to download github and there is a pretty picture of a GUI screen. I don't know how complete that is. I appreciate the advice. I'm going to be working at this a little each day. Maybe I should make a small change to go through the motio...

That is probably it. I saw references to "pull request" and I was reading a request for permission to get pull or something. If I use the gitHub GUI, do I need git? I saw something called Tower for git, which might be handy when one is focusing on code and the git commands don't come to mind. Or is ...

I've been learning about git. Should I be focusing on github?

I've been reading about git. Maybe I should be learning about github.

I'd like to do multicast, either directly as I described or in making the setting and getting of socket options visible, as described. If the latter, I'm interested in a property syntax, as described in the topic on properties for opened things, if the merge schedule is appropriate. For the property...

What tools do I need to play?

Xcode 5?

Visual Studio Express 2013?

Other?

Or is this detailed in a file I will get when I git?

I think URL for files is handled by the engine. The last I saw, PUT was not, but that might be new. I'm all for nonblocking. The blocking form allows for interesting lines like this: put processed( URL "http://alpha.com/test" ) into URL "http://beta.com/test" The nonblocking form, if implemented, mi...

...though we can get that from the lines of the openStuff and the screenRects. Not to discourage such cool features. Just throwing that out.