Buffer.setarrayaccess

Available since: Gideros 2025.1
Class: buffer_luau

Description

Sets the buffer array access.

buffer.setarrayaccess(b,dataType,dim2,dim3)

Parameters

b: (buffer) the buffer
dataType: (string) one of the following:

• "u8": an integer number in range [0, 255]
• "s8": an integer number in range [?]
• "u16": an integer number in range [0, 65,535]
• "s16": an integer number in range [?]
• "u32": an integer number in range [0, 4,294,967,295]
• "s32": an integer number in range [?]
• "f32": a single-precision floating-point number
• "f64": a double-precision floating-point number

dim2: (number) buffer index start
dim3: (number) buffer index end

Example

local str = "Hello Gideros!"
local b = buffer.fromstring(str)
local dataType = "u8"
local dim2, dim3 = 0, 5
buffer.setarrayaccess(b, dataType, dim2, dim3)

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• buffer.copy
  
• buffer.create
  
• buffer.extract
  
• buffer.fill
  
• buffer.fromstring
  
• buffer.len
  
• buffer.read
  
• buffer.readstring
  
• buffer.resize
  
• buffer.setarrayaccess
  
• buffer.tostring
  
• buffer.write
  
• buffer.writestring
  

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