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Help with Winsock Control
Hello Experts:
What I actually need is some help with Winsock connection management. I am working on an application that has some functionality similiar to ICQ or AIM.
I have a client application and server application and can successfully connect multiple clients to the application, but the problem i am having is managing who is connected to each instance of the Winsock control.
Does anyone have any suggestions on how to manage this, so when user A on Winsock(1) wants to send a message to user C on Winsock(3), this can be accomplished successfully.
What I actually need is some help with Winsock connection management. I am working on an application that has some functionality similiar to ICQ or AIM.
I have a client application and server application and can successfully connect multiple clients to the application, but the problem i am having is managing who is connected to each instance of the Winsock control.
Does anyone have any suggestions on how to manage this, so when user A on Winsock(1) wants to send a message to user C on Winsock(3), this can be accomplished successfully.
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I was thinking along those lines but won't that be tremendous overhead if say 100 people connect to the server?
Also, what if user B drops out -- that would require some complex array management.
Also, what if user B drops out -- that would require some complex array management.
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I think it would be slick to have it store the connection that the users are connected to, then that could be passed as a parameter..so
User(1)=UserA
User(2)=UserB
and the array element would indicate which Sock(x) that user is connected to...but seems like complex array management.
User(1)=UserA
User(2)=UserB
and the array element would indicate which Sock(x) that user is connected to...but seems like complex array management.
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interesting thought. Im actually using an Access database already to keep track of member names, so I'll give this a try.
have you solve your problem?? ^_^
ASKER
yes it did...thanks for the quick and easy suggestion. it works like a champ.
nick name and which winsock
user A , 1
user B , 2
user C , 3
when user send message, winsock will send "*user C*" in front of message. e.g. "*user C*Hi, how are you?"
then you will have a function to retrieve the 'user C' from message.
after that, use it to check the nick name in array and send to correct person.