Thanks Alex. I will keep your advice in mind. Matthias
- Matthias Rebbe Life Is Too Short For Boring Code > Am 15.01.2021 um 18:22 schrieb Alex Tweedly via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>: > > > On 15/01/2021 14:46, matthias rebbe via use-livecode wrote: >> Alex, >> for a new project which should include socket communication i have to >> prototype a short "demo" and i was already wondering if i need to have >> running 2 instances of the LC IDE for development. >> >> But now you wrote that you had one server and even multiple client stacks >> opened in LC. >> So do i understand it correctly that both, server and client stack, can >> communicate with each other using sockets in one instance of the LC IDE? > > Yes. A couple of cautions ... > > - make sure your handlers are carefully named > I had a bad habit of using the same name (_gotpacket) each time I wrote a > socket-handling stack, > so I had 'open socket ... with message "_gotpacket" ' > and then I used the same name when I wrote the server !! > > - beware "resetall". In the server stack, I do something like > >> -- would usually do >> -- resetAll >> -- but this causes problems with testing when you have both a client >> -- and a server within the IDE of Rev >> -- so here we will only reset those opensockets which have no 'host' >> part >> -- intending this to be the ones which we have a current 'accept' >> repeat for each line tSock in the openSockets >> if ":" is not in tSock then close socket tSock >> end repeat >> > and in the client stacks I do the inverse (if ":" is in tSock ...). Note this > is still a problem when you have multiple client stacks in the same IDE. > > Finally, > > - when in doubt during testing - first reset the server, then the client. > > > Good luck, > > Alex. > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode