Not sure about my Variant with eventData

Hello.

Suppose I send eventData like:

void SplineEditor::SendEventIndexSelected(int index)
{
using namespace IndexSelected;

VariantMap& eventData = GetEventDataMap();

float data[6];

data[0] = splineVector_[index].x_;
data[1] = splineVector_[index].y_;
data[2] = splineVector_[index].z_;

data[3] = splineOrientVector_[index].x_; // Pan
data[4] = splineOrientVector_[index].y_;  // Tilt
data[5] = splineOrientVector_[index].z_;  // Roll

eventData[P_DATA]= Variant(data);
SendEvent(E_ITEMSELECTED, eventData);
}

and process/receive eventData by:

void Navigation::HandleSplineItemSelected(StringHash eventType, VariantMap &eventData)
{

uint8_t* data;
data = (uint8_t*)eventData[IndexSelected::P_DATA].GetVoidPtr();
float x = *(float*)&data[0];
float y = *(float*)&data[4];
float z = *(float*)&data[8];
float pa = *(float*)&data[12];
float ta = *(float*)&data[16];
float ra = *(float*)&data[20];

cameraNode_->SetPosition(Vector3(x,y,z));
cameraNode_->SetRotation(Quaternion(ta, pa, ra));
}

Especially the lines:

 eventData[P_DATA]= Variant(data);   

and

 data = (uint8_t*)eventData[IndexSelected::P_DATA].GetVoidPtr();

are somewhat doubtful for me. May it be that simple?

Thanks.

If you want to send two vectors why not just send two vectors ?

eventData["splineVector"] = splineVector; eventData["splineOrientVector"] = splineOrientVector; SendEvent(E_ITEMSELECTED, eventData);

and process like this :

cameraNode_->SetPosition(eventData["splineVector"].GetVector3()); cameraNode_->SetRotation(QUaternion(eventData["splineOrientVector"].GetVector3()));

Good. But I am still curious if my approach as in the first post is valid.
We’ll check it then with debug statements.

Your data is located on stack and it is “freed” when SendEventIndexSelected method exits. So, if you need to pass it to another method, allocate it on heap with new: float* data = new float[6] and delete[] it when you need.

SendEventIndexSelected is exited after HandleSplineItemSelected call, so why not?

Ah, right, I forgot that method subscribers are called immediately, that should work

I incline to use your approach as it is more ellegant.

But how does such an event have to be declared?

// if element selection changed:
URHO3D_EVENT(E_INDEXSELECTED, IndexSelected)
{
  URHO3D_PARAM(P_DATA, Data);                  
}

or schould it be smth. like

 URHO3D_EVENT(E_INDEXSELECTED, IndexSelected)
 {
    URHO3D_PARAM("splineVector", Data); 
    URHO3D_PARAM("splineOrientVector", Data);              
 } 

?

Thanks.

Just declare a variant map and add your params to it and finally send it.

void SplineEditor::SendEventIndexSelected(int index)
{
VariantMap eventData;
eventData[“splineVector”] = splineVector[index];
eventData[“splineOrientVector”] = splineOrientVector[index];
SendEvent(E_ITEMSELECTED , eventData);
}

and process it in your handler

void Navigation::HandleSplineItemSelected(StringHash eventType, VariantMap &eventData)
{
cameraNode_->SetPosition(eventData["splineVector].GetVector3());
Vector3 rotation = eventData[“splineOrientVector”];
cameraNode_->SetRotation(Quaternion(rotation.x_ , rotation.y_ , rotation.z_));
}