programming a chat clientserver...

[stumpert]

I have written a chat program. But I am having touble with reading both the keybord and port at the same time. If I write cin>> the program is stuck here until something comes in if i don't write it, it is impossible to write anything on the console.

I'm using Visual Studio 6.0 and are using winsock to comunicate between the client and server. If I use the client to listen to the keybord, and server to listen to the port everything works. but I cant get the client(or server) to do both.

I tried to use threads but it I had some of the same trubble there. Is it possible to time out the cin>> at a spesific time if nothing is typed?

How is it possible to solve this problem?

[Monster]

Have you tried the cin.peek() function?

[Unregistered]

Use kbhit(). It returns 1 when a key is hit.

[Barjor]

Well if your working with windows I would recomend ::GetAsyncKeyState instead of kbhit. Although I am not sure thats really the way to solve this problem. I would lean towards using the keydown function in the message loop and "send" when ever a key was pressed.