Comments on: When ActionScript talks to Java using bytes http://geekspeak.creatrixgames.com/when-actionscript-talks-to-java-using-bytes.html Flash, Java, and Unity game development blog with a focus on business and marketing. Fri, 03 Sep 2010 01:49:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: jason http://geekspeak.creatrixgames.com/when-actionscript-talks-to-java-using-bytes.html/comment-page-1#comment-520 jason Mon, 12 Apr 2010 19:34:36 +0000 http://geekspeak.creatrixgames.com/?p=386#comment-520 Hi Prashant, You have to reconstruct the bits, ie, transform 8 bytes from the byte array into a 64-bit long value using bitwise operations, etc. The caveat is that an ActionScript Number datatype only holds 52 bits (12 bits are for decimal value), so you can't get all 64 bits reconstructed. In the end, I send long values as strings. Not that many extra bytes and allows the full 64 bits to be used. Good luck! Hi Prashant,

You have to reconstruct the bits, ie, transform 8 bytes from the byte array into a 64-bit long value using bitwise operations, etc. The caveat is that an ActionScript Number datatype only holds 52 bits (12 bits are for decimal value), so you can’t get all 64 bits reconstructed.

In the end, I send long values as strings. Not that many extra bytes and allows the full 64 bits to be used.

Good luck!

]]> By: Prashant Jain http://geekspeak.creatrixgames.com/when-actionscript-talks-to-java-using-bytes.html/comment-page-1#comment-519 Prashant Jain Sun, 11 Apr 2010 16:42:16 +0000 http://geekspeak.creatrixgames.com/?p=386#comment-519 Jason, Did you ever figure out how to read a Java Long value from a byteArray. I have a similar problem and spent some crazy hours googling and trying different things. Prashant Jason,
Did you ever figure out how to read a Java Long value from a byteArray. I have a similar problem and spent some crazy hours googling and trying different things.

Prashant

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