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Re: TCP server to client messages...

Subject:Re: TCP server to client messages...
Posted by:"Remy Lebeau (TeamB)" (no.spam@no.spam.com)
Date:Wed, 18 Oct 2006 14:52:29

<tdunsford@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> On the client end, what is the correct way to watch for messages
> coming from the server.  I've written a thread class that just calls
> client.IOHandler.ReadLn(#10,0) in a loop and deals with data
> that comes in.

That is exactly what you need to do.

> It seems to work ok, but i cant help feeling that there is a "proper"
> way to do this.

If the server is sending unsolicited data that you are not expecting (such
as data for a command that must wait for a reply), then using a thread is
the "proper" way to do it.


Gambit

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