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DarkBASIC Discussion / SImple chat, need a little help

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Your mother
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Posted: 29th Mar 2006 14:09
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i have become pretty familiar with dbc during the years i've had it, and i recently got the enhanced version, and would like to begin playing with the multiplayer. I created a simple chat program, but i need the program to always be looking for new messages, but still allow the clients to type messages, please help.
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SimSmall
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Posted: 29th Mar 2006 16:34 Edited at: 29th Mar 2006 16:35
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use entry$() to track what a client entered since the last frame, and add that to a variable which stores the entire message up to now...

upon pressing enter send the variable using send net message string
upon pressing backspace, take one character off the message (see below if not sure)

at the end of every frame use clear entry buffer

deleting characters:
message$ = left$(message$,len(message$) - 1)
`(all but the last character)

Every frame do your usual get net message, net message exist() and net message tpye() commands...

Hope this helped slightly... I'm not the world's best at explaining things...
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