Networking functions

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puzzler (Posted 2005) [#1]

Hi everybody! I was reading through the manual coming with the trial version of BlitzMax. The cross platform availability is a killer argument to move away from Blitz2D, but I am still missing some major networking functionality. I am less interessted in coding games, for me, BB was always a language to solve some automation tasks on windows, which need user input. So, basically a perl with a simpler gui :-) I think better network integration with FTP/HTTP commands to import network information would be needed... or am I just blind? Cheers, Ralf

ImaginaryHuman (Posted 2005) [#2]

I think they are working on the networking module, to provide some better higher-level commands to work with, which will be nice. Or you can make your own.

Hotcakes (Posted 2005) [#3]

Well, Mark has recently finished work on a low level socket module, a GNet module has just been released as alpha (slightly higher level) and I think a high level game-based module is planned (JoinServer(), AddPlayer() etc), time permitting I guess.