All

I'm looking at writing some programsand i figured i would start by looking at the message base as that's the easiest thing to do right now... read/list etc.

i found the structures definition here (http://synchro.net/docs/smb.html) but for the life of me the C structs that are listed in there are not valid that I can tell as for example, you can't have a flexible array that's not at the end of the struct. They would need a length definition.

So unless i'm missing something, is there a definitive SDK or header file i can use that has the correct structures in them?

i'm not a C programmer, although i do know the basics, but i would also rather code in python, but there's no echo for that :P

i found SMBLIB in the repo, but is there any example programs that show how to use it ?

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Re: Reading files directly
By: Charles Blackburn to All on Sat Sep 17 2022 04:17 pm

All

I'm looking at writing some programsand i figured i would start by looking at the message base as that's the easiest thing to do right now... read/list etc.

i found the structures definition here (http://synchro.net/docs/smb.html) but for the life of me the C structs that are listed in there are not valid that I can tell as for example, you can't have a flexible array that's not at the end of the struct. They would need a length definition.

They're valid structs since empty arrays are pointers in C. If you want to see the actual C structure definitions used in SMBLIB, see smbdefs.h.

So unless i'm missing something, is there a definitive SDK or header file i can use that has the correct structures in them?

Yes, SMBLIB.

i'm not a C programmer, although i do know the basics, but i would also rather code in python, but there's no echo for that :P

You'd save a lot of trouble by using the Synchronet JavaScript MsgBase class instead. It's *much* easier for reading/manipulating message bases than what is necessary in C or C++.

i found SMBLIB in the repo, but is there any example programs that show how to use it ?

Sure, smbutil.c is probably the simplest example.
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On Sat, 17 Sep 2022 16:39:04 -0700
"Digital Man" <digital.man@VERT> wrote:

Re: Reading files directly
By: Charles Blackburn to All on Sat Sep 17 2022 04:17 pm

All

I'm looking at writing some programsand i figured i would start by
looking at the message base as that's the easiest thing to do
right now... read/list etc.

i found the structures definition here
(http://synchro.net/docs/smb.html) but for the life of me the C
structs that are listed in there are not valid that I can tell as
for example, you can't have a flexible array that's not at the end
of the struct. They would need a length definition.

They're valid structs since empty arrays are pointers in C. If you
want to see the actual C structure definitions used in SMBLIB, see
smbdefs.h.

So unless i'm missing something, is there a definitive SDK or
header file i can use that has the correct structures in them?

Yes, SMBLIB.

i'm not a C programmer, although i do know the basics, but i would
also rather code in python, but there's no echo for that :P

You'd save a lot of trouble by using the Synchronet JavaScript
MsgBase class instead. It's *much* easier for reading/manipulating
message bases than what is necessary in C or C++.

https://synchro.net/docs/jsobjs.html

In case you don't have this link, I'd highly recommend bookmarking it.
This gives you easy access to a lot of syncrhonet objects. Pretty much
all the end-user produced scripts are done in javascript. If you know C
or C++ then it shouldn't be difficult to transition to JS.
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