RE: wild carding the instance problem

[Ian Lowe]

>It was the broadcast message that i was using......

Good, good ;)

>Also do you see any problem if the instance is a fixed number of
>characters??

Well, the maximum size of the instance is 16 characters, so 17 including
an end terminator of some kind. I don't see any issue with handling this
internally as a fixed chunk of seventeen bytes.

I'm thinking through the implications, and tbh, if you are really short
for memory, and need to restrict the instance for your device to only,
say, 8 characters... I don't think that will break anything..

The main thing is to handle it gracefully: I wouldn't think it was okay
to ignore or drop a config message because the instance is longer than
you can handle. If you receive a config message asking you to set the
instance, and you truncate it, it's going to be fairly apparent to the
user what happened.

Tony? John? Does this approach present any problems for the OCX or DLL
respectively?

Ian.