Thread: Getting Started With Winsock!

Yeah!!! WinSock!!! Yeah!!! Ok. I want to dive more deeply into this and really aren't sure where to begin. Let me tell you what I want to do, and see if you can give me a few hints. I want to make a *simple* no wait, *very simple* chat program. I really don't know what all it will take but here what I think so far.

1) Create a socket
2) Bind the socket
3) open the socket
4) Send or receive data
5) ??

I don't want to fool around with servers or anything else, just have it so that you just punch in an IP address and a message and it'll send it to the other chat program at the specified IP address? If anyone can give me just a rough outline of what I need to do that would be great. Just an order to do what in would be great. The less detail the better actually cause I don't learn to much when someone write it all out for me :-) Thanks for the help.

-Aaron

There is a sample as part of MFC VC++ 6. CHATTER and CHATSRV I beleive. It is a sample showing tcpip socket communication. I would check it out. You can download it from msdn for free. It comes as a helpfile and then you get the source from within the help file.

Ok. thanks for the tips. After MUCH reading and studing sample code I hammered out a rough dialog based app. However, when I tell the app to go into a loop to listen for some data my program is unresposive to other input. Am I missing something here?? There has to be a way to listen without locking up the whole program. Thanks for any tips.

-Aaron

Look into Asynchronous sockets. These send a message to the window when there is something to be read. that way you don't "wait"