BlitzBasic like networking in c++?
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| Hi, I know this might be a little bold, but I am currently looking around for libraries to setup networking in a c++ programm, but so far they all were lacking something here or there. So I remembered back to my biltzbasic experience with networking. I liked the way blitz would let me handle it. Does anyone know if such library exists? Or something similar? (I often found udp-only or tcp unfriendly libs) greetings |
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| For BlitzMax I believe the most stable is either Gnet or Raknet. Here is Brucey's Raknet svn. Here's some good topics: Online and Network Tutorials Gnet(Enet) only for UDP? GNet or TNet Socket Programming Networking problems (bNet) For Blitz3D (and BlitzMax) there is Kurix/RepeatUntil/Jimon's RakNet wrapper: RakNet wrapper site RakNet Wrapper 0.5 Released |
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| Hi, well thanks for the lot of topics, but that was not what I asked for. I want networking _like_ blitz not with blitz. I want to use it with c++ Also I somehow don't trust that "reliable udp" thing :D greetings |
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| Also I somehow don't trust that "reliable udp" thing :D Reliable UDP can definitely be done -- the actual native protocol itself doesn't account for it (unlike TCP), but you can implement a system on top of that still gives you similar functionality. More work for the (library) programmer, though. |
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| the difference is that TCP will actually pause waiting for the reply in the session whereas UDP is fire and forget. Implementing a reliability system is not that complex. |
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| I use to be an anti-UDPer like you but I can tell you now, I am 100% satisfied with Raknet's reliable UDP. It is 100000 times better than all the poor attempts at TCP I made previously. And it's used for an RTS too, so order is important. |
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| Thanks for the replies, sounds worth a try ;) One last question, when I use udp can I still download from http servers? Is there a workaround or would I have to implement tcp for that with a different lib? greetings |
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| Hey again, I use enet now and I can use http with ENetSocket s = enet_socket_create(ENET_SOCKET_TYPE_STREAM); and send and receive about the same way like in blitz greetings |
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| FreetimeCoder: great find there i didnt know ENet existed till i saw your post, thanks :) |
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