How do you....?

[Iceman]

How can i get a variable off the internet(and send)?

If this doesn't make sense reply and ill try to be more clear

later,
Iceman
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[noone]

CAn you be a bit more clear?

[Iceman]

I'll try, you know the savesetting/getsetting functions? Is there something like that i could use to send/recieve from the internet?

(if you know those functions then this should be fairly clear)

Oh yeah, if there is some other way to do this(better) id appriciate being told(of course)(different from what im asking i mean)

[Edited by Iceman on 05-06-2000 at 11:36 AM]

[lychew]

You still haven't say it clear yet. Savesetting and getsetting are dumping the dat ainto registry. It has nothing to do with internet transfer. There's also a few kind of internet transfer such as HTTP, FTP and Email. Some of it uses winsock, wininet or even ASP. So you got to be more specific...

[Iceman]

well i know its not the same but i meant something similar but storing it on the internet not the comp

anyway i was thinking about doing some kind of game that could interact with the internet, thus other people

so id like to know how to send data to maybe a particular site, i dunno really just trying to find out info on that sort of thing

does this help more?

[noone]

Sorry but your really still not being specific enough. Is your game webased or a standalone appliaction?

[Iceman]

sorry, im really trying to get this right

ok i haven't made anything yet, but i was wondering if there is someway(ANYway) in visual basic to retreive and store variables, strings, etc off the internet? I could get a site or something to do so if i needed to, so thats not really a problem.

please say this helps

ps. im not really sure what you mean by the last question...but if i understand it at all: i think it could kinda of be both though(like they choose online or offline when they start)

[lychew]

I think what you meant was to build a multi users web based game. You would like to store the levels and skills for each user so that that can resume with the same skills level when they reconnect to the site.

I can think of 3 ways to do this. First will be the database. Save the level info for individual user on the database provided by the web hosting service. Second is to save it as text/xml in the web hosting service's directory. The third one is to save as cookies in the user's PC.