Timeout and winsock

[Disgrace]

I'm just starting to use winsock and couldn't for the life of me come up with an effective way to detect timeout on connection.

Can anyone help me?

[dzzie]

you pretty much have to implement one for yourself with an extra timer control,

then somewhere in your code you go into a feedback loop waiting for xxx=true like

'connect and stuff
timer1.enabled =true
 
while not downloadcomplete
  sleep 60
  doevents
  if timer1.enabled = false then 
    msgbox "timed out"
  end if 
wend
 
sub timer1_timer()
    timer1.enabled =false
end sub

[dzzie]

oops forgot after msgbox exit loop

[Disgrace]

Thanks for the help. I came up with a similar idea and it works pretty well.