Conversion to float array

Yoshiki Ohshima yoshiki at squeakland.org
Wed Jan 4 06:30:02 UTC 2006


  Bob,

> I am reading a sequence of bytes from a pipe. The data is actually 32
> bit float values. Is there an easy and efficient way to convert the byte
> array to a float array. Just doing asFloatArray not surprisingly gives
> me an array with each byte converted to a float and what I want is each
> 4 bytes converted to a float.

  Is it something that #hackBits: can help?  Take a look at
Bitmap>>copyFromByteArray: and Bitmap>>asByteArray.

-- Yoshiki




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