js-ctypes from javascript objects

Question

I\'m working on a Firefox extension that receives binary images as ArrayBuffers of uint8_t.

In my extension I load a .dll file that

Answer 1

You should be able to do just:

var a = new Uint8Array(1<<10);
var ptr = new ctypes.uint8_t.ptr(a.buffer);

The stuff is not documented it seems, but there are some tests that demonstrate this.