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String Message

• Protocol Version: 3.0
• Release Date: January 20, 2017

Summary

The STRING message type is used for transferring a character string. It supports character strings up to 65535 bytes.

Message Types

STRING

Data	Type	Description
ENCODING	uint16	Character encoding type as MIBenum value. Default=3.
LENGTH	uint16	Length of string (bytes)
STRING	uint8[LENGTH]	Byte array of the string

• For MIBenum character encoding, please refer IANA Character Sets. US-ASCII (ANSI-X3.4-1968; MIBenum = 3) is strongly recommended.

GET_STRING

Data	Type	Description

          |               |

STT_STRING

N/A

STP_STRING

N/A

RTS_STRING

N/A

Implementations

The TDATA message type is implemented in the following source code.

• igtlStringMessage.h
• igtlStringMessage.cxx

Contributors

• Junichi Tokuda