[ENet-discuss] Sending numerical values in packets

[Brian Hook]

On Sat, 08 Nov 2003 14:26:05 +0200, Mika Halttunen wrote:
> Greetings!
> I was wondering, how could I send numerical values, i.e. short
> ints, ints and floats, using ENetPackets?

First off, I'd highly advise against sending floats, especially if 
you're going to have communication between different clients (e.g. a 
Mac client and a PC client).  At the very least, do NOT do any type of 
floating point comparisons between clients.

To answer your question, you'll want to take all our data, convert it 
to a standardized network byte order (e.g. big-endian), serialize, 
send, and then do the opposite on the other side.  You can use the 
standard functions such as htons, etc. or you can roll your own.

Check out www.poshlib.org for a simple library (header + C file) that 
handles endianess conversion and serialization.

Brian