winsock array - help needed.

i created a multichat app with winsock array it seems to work fine.

say i have 3 clients connected namely client1,client2 and client3 respectively.


if client1 send private message to client2, it checks whether a private message window hasn't already been open with client1 on client2's machine. if not it opens a new window
else
it displays the data in the opened window.

it works fine.

now how do you do that with the server

say client1 sends a message to the server machine, it must do the same thing as client2 machine above.

i tried it it just keeps opening new window

what do i do.

you've just asked a question which no-one could answer without guessing :-/

You will need to post code, tell su the problems. screenshots etc.

Pino

VB Code:

Private Sub wsckarr_DataArrival(ByVal lngIndex As Long, ByVal strData As String)
 
dim strMsgarr() as string
dim NewPM as New frmPM
 
strMsgarr = split(strData, chr(59))   ' chr(59) here is ";" character without the quotation marks
 
            'Searches through the PM's to see if an open message is already open with the user
            For i = 0 To 30
                If NewPM(i).Caption = strMsgarr(3) Then
                    'If it is, it simply adds the text to that window, then exits this function
                    strPMMsg = strMsgarr(1) & strMsgarr(3) & strMsgarr(2)
                    NewPM(i).txtMessage.Text = strPMMsg
                    Exit Sub
                End If
            Next i
            'If not, it simply adds the text, and pops open a new window.
            NewPM(intPmCount).Caption = strMsgarr(3)
                    strPMMsg = strMsgarr(1) & strMsgarr(2) & strMsgarr(3) & vbCrLf
            NewPM(intPmCount).txtMessage.Text = strPMMsg
            Load NewPM(intPmCount)
            NewPM(intPmCount).Show
            intPmCount = intPmCount + 1
 
 
End Sub