help with .writeBytes

[luk34llen]

hello,

i am trying to send Binary data to a socket using flash..

we have created a device that understands raw binary, although i am having trouble sending it.

i have a variable chanel_text.text defines what binary code to send when the submit button is pressed. i am getting

"Scene 1, Layer 'as', Frame 1, Line 52  1067: Implicit coercion of a value of type String to an unrelated type flash.utils:ByteArray."

i presume this is because the ****** in s.writeBytes(*******) is not to the format flash expects.

function submit(event:MouseEvent):void {
if (channel_text.text == "1"){
s.writeBytes("0000011");}
if (channel_text.text == "2"){
s.writeBytes("0010011");}
if (channel_text.text == "3"){
s.writeBytes("0100011");}
if (channel_text.text == "4"){
s.writeBytes("1000011");}
}

what i am asking is if i want to send the 7bit binary 0000011 what do i write?

Kind regards
-Luke

[cancerinform]

Here is one way to code and decode a 7 Bit bytearray. I don't know that is the best way to do it.

import flash.utils.ByteArray;

var bArray:Array = [0,0,0,0,0,1,1];
var bytes:ByteArray = new ByteArray();
for(var i:int=0; i<bArray.length; i++)
{
bytes.writeByte(bArray[i]);
}
var bb:ByteArray = new ByteArray();
bb.writeBytes(bytes);
for(var j:int=0; j<bb.length; j++)
{
bb.position = j;
trace(bb.readByte());
}

[luk34llen]

Thankyou, this is extremely useful and works well with my current if statement.

function submit(event:MouseEvent):void {
if (channel_text.text == "1"){
var bArray:Array = [0,0,0,0,0,1,1];
}
if (channel_text.text == "2"){
var bArray:Array = [0,0,1,0,0,1,1];
}
if (channel_text.text == "3"){
var bArray:Array = [0,1,1,0,0,1,1];
}
if (channel_text.text == "4"){
var bArray:Array = [1,1,1,0,0,1,1];
}

var bytes:ByteArray = new ByteArray();
for(var i:int=0; i<bArray.length; i++)
{
bytes.writeByte(bArray[i]);
}
var bb:ByteArray = new ByteArray();
bb.writeBytes(bytes);
for(var j:int=0; j<bb.length; j++)
{
bb.position = j;
trace(bb.readByte());

Thankyou