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Grisu(Posted 2010) [#1]
Hi everyone!

I'm looking for a simple way to detect the "ping" of an IP address.
I'd like to give the users of my radio player an easy method to check how far away they are from a radio stream server.

Is this possible without coding a complete multiplayer engine? ;)

Grisu

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Hummelpups(Posted 2010) [#2]
proc:TProcess=TProcess.Create("c:\windows\system32\ping.exe ip.ip.ip.ip")
pipe=proc.pipe

and so on, look in pub.freeprocess for mor information

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Hummelpups(Posted 2010) [#3]
argh

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Thareh(Posted 2010) [#4]
You simply create a millisecs() variable, send a signal of choice do the radio stream server, and then send a response to the client and the client just goes: print "Ping: " + Millisecs() - MillsecsVar ^^
Or am I too hungover for this? :P


Grisu(Posted 2010) [#5]
I need a cross-platform solution. To just call ping.exe won't do it. :(

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kfprimm(Posted 2010) [#6]
Calling just CreateProcess("ping 127.0.0.1") should work fine on all platforms.


Grisu(Posted 2010) [#7]
Could one of you make up an example code. I'm completely new to this thread stuff. Plus the bmx docs aren't of much help.

SuperStrict
Framework Brl.EventQueue
Import BRL.StandardIO
Import PUB.freeprocess

Global proc:TProcess=TProcess.Create("ping www.pulsradio,com",0)
Print "Ping? "


Zeke(Posted 2010) [#8]
im sure you can modify this to your needs...:

SuperStrict
Framework Brl.EventQueue
Import BRL.StandardIO
Import PUB.freeprocess

Global proc:TProcess=TProcess.Create("ping www.pulsradio.com",0) 

While proc
	If proc.pipe.ReadAvail()
		Local a:String
		a = proc.pipe.ReadLine()
		Print a
	EndIf
Wend


this is my output:
Ping-is„nt„: www.pulsradio.com [88.191.88.14] 32 tavua tietoja:

Vastaus is„nn„lt„ 88.191.88.14: tavuja=32 aika=59 ms TTL=51

Vastaus is„nn„lt„ 88.191.88.14: tavuja=32 aika=56 ms TTL=51
so you cannot use find("time=")..

instead just take 3nd last text... time=xxx aika=xxx

(last is TTL=xxx
2.last is ms
3. last is aika=xxx or time=xxx or whatever is your locale
)

line.split(" ")... etc.. you know this.....

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Grisu(Posted 2010) [#9]
I will, thanks a lot.

Well, my app is multilingual, but I think the output should be similar on each os / language.

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