Upgrade Indy9 to Indy10 - delphi

Question

I want to upgrade my application from Indy 9 to 10 with Delphi 2007.
In this thread there is a call to Indy9 TIdUDPBase.SendBuffer but this won't compile in Indy10 as the method parameter don't exists. The third parameter aBuffer is a var parameter and I didn't find any such method signature in Indy10.
Any alternative method to call ?
procedure TSenderThread.Execute;
var
vTimeData: TTimeDataRecord;
I: Integer;
FElapsed: Int64;
FTimerElappsed,
vLastTimerElappsed: Int64;
begin
vTimeData.Size := SizeOf(TTimeDataRecord);
vTimeData.ClientCount := 1;
Priority := tpHighest;
FIdUDPClient := TIdUDPClient.Create(nil);
FIdUDPClient.BroadcastEnabled := True;
try
while not (Terminated or Application.Terminated) do
begin
Sleep(1000);
//Measure Time frame
vLastTimerElappsed := FTimerElappsed;
QueryPerformanceCounter(FTimerElappsed);
FElapsed := ((FTimerElappsed-vLastTimerElappsed)*1000000) div FFrequency;
vTimeData.TotalTimeFrame := FElapsed;
if FRunning then
begin
FElapsed := ((FTimerElappsed-FStart)*1000000) div FFrequency;
vTimeData.CurrentMessageTime := FElapsed;
end
else
vTimeData.CurrentMessageTime := 0;
//Copy Values
vTimeData.AccumulatedTime := InterlockedExchange(TimeData.AccumulatedTime,0);
vTimeData.MessageCount := InterlockedExchange(TimeData.MessageCount,0);
for I := 0 to TimeClassMax do
vTimeData.TimeClasses[I] := InterlockedExchange(TimeData.TimeClasses[I],0);
// Calls procedure TIdUDPBase.SendBuffer(AHost: string; const APort: Integer; var ABuffer; const AByteCount: integer);
// This is changed in Indy10, unable to compile
FIdUDPClient.SendBuffer('255.255.255.255', UIPerfPort, vTimeData, TimeData.Size);
end;
finally
FreeAndNil(FIdUDPClient);
end;
end;
EDIT:
vTimeData is basically an array of integers.
TTimeDataRecord = record
Size: Integer; //Size of record structure is transfered and compared for safty reasons.
ClientCount: Integer;
AccumulatedTime: Integer; //This is the accumulated time busy in microseconds
CurrentMessageTime: Integer; //This is the time the current message has been processed. If several computers report a high value at the same time it indicates a freeze!
TotalTimeFrame: Integer; //This is the total time measured in microseconds
MessageCount: Integer;
TimeClasses: array [0..TimeClassMax] of Integer;
end;

Answer 1

you have a method with same name
procedure TIdUDPClient.SendBuffer(const AHost: string; const APort: TIdPort;
const ABuffer: TIdBytes);
Instead of an untyped buffer it expects an array of bytes. What is your data like? You just need to write your data as an array of bytes. Something like:
var
Buffer: TIdBytes;
begin
SetLength(Buffer, YourSizeOfData);
Move(YourData, Buffer[0], YourSizeOfData);
FIdUDPClient.SendBuffer('255.255.255.255', UIPerfPort, Buffer);
end;
But as I said it depends on the type of the data. The approach is ok however.
EDIT:
Now that I can see that you have a record you have two options:
Just move the whole record to array of bytes.
Move(#aRecord, Buffer[0], (6 + TimeClassMax) * SizeOf(Integer));
Have a CopyToBytes method in your record that does the actual copy. More general I guess.
TTimeDataRecord = record
Size: Integer; //Size of record structure is transfered and compared for safty reasons.
ClientCount: Integer;
AccumulatedTime: Integer; //This is the accumulated time busy in microseconds
CurrentMessageTime: Integer; //This is the time the current message has been processed. If several computers report a high value at the same time it indicates a freeze!
TotalTimeFrame: Integer; //This is the total time measured in microseconds
MessageCount: Integer;
TimeClasses: array [0..TimeClassMax] of Integer;
procedure CopyToBytes(var Buffer: TIdBytes);
end
Implementation of the CopyToBytes
procedure TTimeDataRecord.CopyToBytes(var Buffer: TIdBytes);
begin
// copy the data however you see fit
end;