[Winsock] send & recv

[emyztik]

Is it possible to send a text message with the API send? and receive the sent text message with recv on the server/client?

Like:

send lSocket, "howdy", Len("howdy"), flags ' probably wrong but thats why Im here :)

Possible?

Any examples you recommend seeing?

(I've checked vbip/winsockvb/allapi but none really have good examples of it)

[manavo11]

The only example I can find is about downloading a file, which I guess doesn't help much... Is there a problem using the winsock control?

[emyztik]

I can't ues the Winsock Control because my project is DLL. It errors "Out of Memory" when I use control. Thus why I want send/recv API's to send Text messages.

[MalcolmCarmen]

If you are familiar with Sockets (such as the Winsock OCX), search google for "VB6 CSocket" - csocket is a GREAT all-API class + module that you can use as a socket, it works FAR better than winsock, doesn't eat memory like crazy. I have a control to "encapsulate" it so it's more like winsock - just email [email protected]

[emyztik]

I've tried using CSocket before but I couldn't get it to send and receive data properly. I've also tried using Wokawidget's "vbWinsck" in his Component Suite but it errors "Failed to initialize blah blah". I was told it errors that because Winsock needs to create a window and it can't in a DLL. So I was then instructed to use the API's send and recv.

I emailed you, MalcolmCarmen.

[anotherVBnewbie]

If you are still having problems look at this project - http://vbforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=37051