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Using your own QoS profile in RTI Admin Console

RTI Admin Console uses several non-default QoS settings when interacting with Topics that are used to communicate with other RTI products. The out-of-the-box settings attempt to satisfy the majority of use cases customers have with other configurations, but sometimes it is necessary to change these ...
jcpulido
Mon, 05/04/2020 - 04:16
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Why do I get a PreconditionNotMetError when using plain_cast with FlatData?

The function plain_cast allows casting a buffer of bytes within a FlatData sample into a C++ instance of the type represented by that buffer. This allows for better performance and ease of use. However, for plain_cast to work, the data sample must meet a number of restrictions that essentially ...
jcpulido
Wed, 04/29/2020 - 03:13
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Windows console seems to freeze DDS application when clicked

Windows 10 consoles have a feature called Quick Edit that may cause confusion when using RTI Connext DDS applications that use the console. In particular, the application may appear to hang when the console window is clicked in with the mouse. This 'hanging effect' is a by-product of the Quick Edit ...
garyb
Thu, 04/23/2020 - 18:54
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Why is my Connext DDS application triggering 'PRESCstReaderCollator_storeSampleData:!deserialize' when trying to communicate with a newer version?

Note: Applies to RTI Connext 5.2.3 and before. Starting with Connext DDS 5.3.0 (also in 5.2.7) the number of locators that can be announced by a DomainParticipant increased from 4 to 16. However, older versions (5.2.3 or lower) only allow 4 locators to be announced as part of the Participant ...
Sandra Rodriguez
Fri, 02/14/2020 - 01:00
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Advanced data access using Connector (Javascript)

Introduction RTI Connector offers a simplified API to Data Distribution Service. Different than the full DDS API, this lightweight API does not offer a one-to-one data mapping between the published or subscribed to datatype defined by the language (Javascript/Python). For example, if you use the C ...
fabrizio
Thu, 02/13/2020 - 14:49
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What is an RTPS interface in RTI Connext Micro?

In RTI Connext Micro , an external RTPS interface parses RTPS messages from other DomainParticipants and passes them to an internal RTPS session based on the received GUID. Each participant creates 1 external interface. Micro has a limit of 16 external RTPS interfaces, which implies a maximum of 16 ...
grayson
Thu, 02/13/2020 - 14:21
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How to check the size of a topic's TypeCode/TypeObject using RTI Admin Console

This article quickly illustrates how the RTI Admin Console can be used to determine the TypeCode and TypeObject sizes (note 2). In the example below, the RTI Shapes Demo is publishing Circles, Squares, and Triangles. The Admin Console displays the TypeCode and TypeObject sizes in several places. In ...
garyb
Fri, 12/20/2019 - 11:18
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