pinging a list of addresses...

[emptywords]

i have a treeview which will contain names of sites pinged. When the form loads, i want to ping this list of sites to see which ones replies and which ones don't.


the treeview looks like this...


username
Online
....yahoo
....hotmail
Offline
....google
....lycos

the node that says "Online" is called n1

this is what i do to add one online site...

call this sub

Dim hFile As Long, lpWSAdata As WSAdata
Dim hHostent As Hostent, AddrList As Long
Dim Address As Long, rIP As String
Dim OptInfo As IP_OPTION_INFORMATION
Dim EchoReply As IP_ECHO_REPLY
Call WSAStartup(&H101, lpWSAdata)
If GetHostByName(hostname + String(64 - Len(hostname), 0)) <> SOCKET_ERROR Then
CopyMemory hHostent.h_name, ByVal GetHostByName(hostname + String(64 - Len(hostname), 0)), Len(hHostent)
CopyMemory AddrList, ByVal hHostent.h_addr_list, 4
CopyMemory Address, ByVal AddrList, 4
End If
hFile = IcmpCreateFile()
If hFile = 0 Then
strreply = "Unable to Create File Handle"
Exit Sub
End If
OptInfo.TTL = 255
If IcmpSendEcho(hFile, Address, String(32, "A"), 32, OptInfo, EchoReply, Len(EchoReply) + 8, 2000) Then
rIP = CStr(EchoReply.Address(0)) + "." + CStr(EchoReply.Address(1)) + "." + CStr(EchoReply.Address(2)) + "." + CStr(EchoReply.Address(3))
Else
strreply = "Timeout"
End If
If EchoReply.Status = 0 Then
strreply = "yes"
Else
strreply = "Failure ..."
End If
Call IcmpCloseHandle(hFile)
Call WSACleanup

then, i add them based on what "strreply" is


so i have

Private Sub Form_Load()

Set n1 = TreeView1.Nodes.Add(, 1, "new", "new", 2, 2)
n1.Bold = True
n1.Text = "Online"

const hostname = "www.yahoo.com"
call ping
if strreply = "yes" then

treeview1.nodes.add(n1, 4, [key], [text])="Yahoo.com"
end if

Now finally the question....

when i use a loop or a for statement to run the ping sub over again, i need to change const hostname to the name of the different sites (of course) but, when i do that vb tells me:

compile error duplicate declaration in current scope

how can i get rid of this?

-emptywords

[gwdash]

do use a constant, at the top of your form/module put this

make sure the sub and form_load are in the same module, otherwise, you must change it to Public

Private hostname As String

if your loop, set hostname=whatever

or you could pass hostname as a parameter to the ping sub

change

Function ping() As String

To 

Function ping(hostname) As String

and then in your loop:

ping(whatever)