My chat server + client

[Tempestknight]

ok first for my client.

I have everything made i was just wondering how after a set amount of lines the chat will clear OR once the text reaches the bottom it keep scrolling down.

Now for my server.

Everything is made but i wanna make it so that it displays the current online users. i have the thing that adds 1 to the count but i dunno how to minus one when someone disconnects.I also wanna make it so that after someoen disconnects the winsock array is closed.... anyone got any ideas how to do that?

Thanks for your help,
David

[wiccaan]

Well for your client you can use:

Private Sub Text1_Change()
    With Text1
        .SelStart = Len(.Text) + 1
    End With
End Sub

But Im not so positive on the server part.

[Tempestknight]

i use a list will that still work?

EDIT

nope it didn't work with List1 i changed the Text1 to List1's if ur wondering lol

[wiccaan]

Oh, didnt know you where using a Listbox, try this.. Add a timer and put this in it. Use a interval of about 500 (You can change it if needed).

Private Sub Timer1_Timer()
With List1
    .ListIndex = .ListCount - 1
End With
End Sub

[Tempestknight]

ok that worked thx

[wiccaan]

Well on your server you can also have like a label for the users.

Dim i as long

Private Sub Form_Load()
Label1.Caption = "Online Users :: 0"
i = 0
End Sub

Like that. Then in the Socket_ConnectionRequest put something like

i = i + 1
With Label1
      .Caption = "Online Users :: " & i
End With

And in the Socket_Close sub put something like

i = i - 1
With Label1
     .Caption = "Online Users :: " & i
End With

Now this may now work to good because clients with sockets can have multiple connects to the server. So it may count the same connection twice because of sockets. But thats the general idea of it.