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Re: Creating TCP server with blocking Indy components?

Subject:Re: Creating TCP server with blocking Indy components?
Posted by:"Remy Lebeau (TeamB)" (no.spam@no.spam.com)
Date:Fri, 23 Mar 2007 18:03:53

"Bo Berglund" <bo.berglund@telia.com> wrote in message
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> Just downloaded the docs. My-oh-my, it is a 3187 page
> PDF file and no really useful indexing either....

The Indy-In-Depth eBook is not the documentation I was referring to.

> OK, so the event fires by itself also with no data being received???
> Strange.

The most common thing done when writing a blocking threaded server is
to write a 'while not Terminated' loop in the thread.  So TIdTCPServer
does that for you internally, allowing you to focus your code on just
what happened for each iteration of the loop.

> It contains a lot of extraneous files as well, which the 9.0.18 zip
> does not.

Such as?

> Are there real improvements to the dev snapshot?

Yes.  Many of the units have received updates since 9.0.18 was
released in late 2004.


Gambit

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