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I am trying to call a function sent to my program through a UDP string. On the client side, I am trying to send

$portsend = UDPOpen("192.168.100.87", 6969)
$string = '"RENAMEPC", "VANQUISH"'
UDPSend($portsend, $string)

On the server side, I am using the while loop to listen for the UDP command with the following loop

While 1
$funccal = UDPRecv($port, 100000)
If $funccal <> "" Then
  Call($funccal)
  ConsoleWrite($funccal & @lf)
  UDPSend($portsend, "RECEIVED" & $funccal)
  $funccal = ""
EndIf
Sleep(10)
WEnd

For some reason I can not get the function called with the arguments. I do not get it. What can I be doing wrong?

Thank you for all of your help!

Edited by Jkeith247
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What does $funccal contain after it receives the data? You're only checking to see if it's empty, you're not checking to see if it contains what you want. Put a consolewrite after the UDPRecv line to see what is inside $funccal. Also, have you checked the return from UDPSend to see if it was successful?

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What does $funccal contain after it receives the data? You're only checking to see if it's empty, you're not checking to see if it contains what you want. Put a consolewrite after the UDPRecv line to see what is inside $funccal. Also, have you checked the return from UDPSend to see if it was successful?

I do have a console write line in to see what it contains. It most definetly contains everything I am sending verbatim... Basically I am not having issue sending or receiving strings... This issue is "How to send this string" so that it calls the function with the variables properly. I can call standard functions any time ex. Function() When I try to call a function ex. Function(variable) is when the problem starts.

Thanks again for the help!

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Try doing a string split on the received data and use the array to call the function. Maybe something like this would work?

While 1
    $funccal = UDPRecv($port, 100000)
    If $funccal <> "" Then
        $Test = StringSplit($funccal, ",")
        Call($Test[1], $Test[2])
        ConsoleWrite($funccal & @LF)
        UDPSend($portsend, "RECEIVED" & $funccal)
        $funccal = ""
    EndIf
    Sleep(10)
WEnd

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Try doing a string split on the received data and use the array to call the function. Maybe something like this would work?

While 1
    $funccal = UDPRecv($port, 100000)
    If $funccal <> "" Then
        $Test = StringSplit($funccal, ",")
        Call($Test[1], $Test[2])
        ConsoleWrite($funccal & @LF)
        UDPSend($portsend, "RECEIVED" & $funccal)
        $funccal = ""
    EndIf
    Sleep(10)
WEnd

Unfortunately this is going to cause me a bit of an issue when there is a function that does not contain a variable. I tried to call it and it reported errors when the second field after the comma was left empty... However the Function that requried variables did work ok... Something strange I hav enoticed though is in my console I am finding digits added to the left of my strings when I console write the $funcal. So MUTE, appeared as 5060MUTE, . I guess I could write a If to check for the variable containing a comma, but this seems inefficient... What do you think?
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If you're using it sometimes with and without optional parameters, you could do it this way.

Local $Parameters, $Test
While 1
    $funccal = UDPRecv($port, 100000)
    If $funccal  "" Then
        $Test = StringSplit($funccal, ","); split on the comman
        $Parameters = ""
        If $Test[0] > 1 Then
            For $I = 2 To $Test[0]
                $Parameters &= $Test[$I] & "," ;adds the comma back in.
            Next
            Call($Test[1], $Parameters)
        Else
            Call($Test[1])
        EndIf
        ConsoleWrite($funccal & @LF)
        UDPSend($portsend, "RECEIVED" & $funccal)
        $funccal = ""
    EndIf
    Sleep(10)
WEnd

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jkeith247,

The following may be a simpler way to do this:

SERVER

; server
UDPStartup()
OnAutoItExitRegister("Cleanup")
Local $socket = UDPBind("127.0.0.1", 65532)
If @error <> 0 Then Exit
While 1
    Local $data = UDPRecv($socket, 50)
 ConsoleWrite($data & @lf)
    If $data <> "" Then Execute($data)
    Sleep(100)
WEnd
Func Cleanup()
    UDPCloseSocket($socket)
    UDPShutdown()
EndFunc   ;==>Cleanup
Func renamepc($parm1)
 MsgBox(0,'',$parm1,1)
endfunc

CLIENT

;  client
UDPStartup()
OnAutoItExitRegister("Cleanup")
Local $socket = UDPOpen("127.0.0.1", 65532)
If @error <> 0 Then Exit
Local $n = 0
While 1
    Sleep(2000)
    $n = $n + 1
    Local $status = UDPSend($socket, "renamepc('vanquish')")
    If $status = 0 Then
        MsgBox(0, "ERROR", "Error while sending UDP message: " & @error)
        Exit
    EndIf
WEnd
Func Cleanup()
    UDPCloseSocket($socket)
    UDPShutdown()
EndFunc   ;==>Cleanup

If this is incredibly naive then mea culpa, first attempt at network code.

Good Luck,

kylomas

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