Connect TCP

[Ghastly_MIB]

Hey all,

i'm trying to make a messenger for the netwerk with TCP.

Is it posible to connect multiple clients to one server?

If it can, how?

Thanks,

Ghastly_MIB

[andd]

The new beta supports sockets.

Usually you can connect several clients to a listening (server) socket...

[Ghastly_MIB]

So I coult use this?:

$g_IP = "192.168.0.2"
$MainSocket = TCPListen($g_IP, 65432,  100 )
$g_IP = "192.168.0.3"
$MainSocket2 = TCPListen($g_IP, 65432,  100 )
Enz..

[andd]

So I coult use this?:

$g_IP = "192.168.0.2"
$MainSocket = TCPListen($g_IP, 65432,  100 )
$g_IP = "192.168.0.3"
$MainSocket2 = TCPListen($g_IP, 65432,  100 )
Enz..

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

You just need one listening socket, which is the server. Then the clients can connect to this socket.

With TCPAccept you can define which action should be done when a client connects.

Check the the example in the help file, it also deals with a chat program...

[MrSpacely]

You can accept using an array. There is a script somewhere on the forum wich shows this, its created by larry and its a chat client/server and it works.

It uses socket variable in a array wich makes it possible to have multiple sockets at once.

Only larrys script was for a broadcast like chat wich sends text to all users. You need to have more arrays to be able to send to specific users.

An array per connection is needed I think a multi dimension array even because you to save the text per conversation per user (like a buffer per conversation per user)

for $concounter=1 to $totalcon
  $connection[$concounter]
  for $conversationcounter=1 to $maxconversations[$concounter]
    senddata($concounter, $condata[$concounter][$conversationcounter] [1],$condata[$concounter][$conversationcounter][2])
  next
next

for example sending the array

$condata[connection][connection you chatting with][flag]

flag being 1 contains connection identifier

flag being 2 contains chat data you need to send to that connection

try looking for chat made by larry for multi socket hints

Edited September 8, 2005 by MrSpacely