I just started developing a client in Macromedia Director.
The client is already able to connect to other servants but for a maximum of around 10 secs only!

My client does not receive any reply from the pings it sends!

Any explanations and/or suggestions to fix this problem would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance.




PS> Any Director Lingo experts around? I could do with some help!

You're that Lingo guy again huh?
Your client should send pongs to all incoming pings, if you don't the neighboor usually disconnects.
You can use Shareaza's packet viewer to debug, thats what I used to do.

BUT WHY LINGO

Because I como from a multimedia background and Lingo it's one of two languages I am confortable with.

The other one is actionScript.

I wish I knew C

I'm just not sure if Lingo is suitable for a fast Gnutellaclient
or if it would even just work.

I mean I haven't heard from a Office-like program made in Flash.
Its just multimedia eyecandy (Director/Flash)

BTW that Packet Dump from Shareaza looks quite handy!

Thanks.

Yeah that thing was called packet dump. Right...

Probaly you are right and I am wasting my time building the client in Director.

I ahd no problem sending the handshake 0.6 headers and I get replies but when it comes to send a Ping or Pong it doesn't work. I think that's because everything Director sends is a String! And I can't seem to find a way of sending an Array of bytes which forms the Ping, Pong, etc packets.

Conclusion I am stuck and don't know how to get moving.

Yeah, strings and plain messages work,
but I guess the types like Byte, Integer, Endian and that stuff
arent well covered.

Really you should learn some other "real" languages.
I've been coding a VB client, I too wish I could code C

Which pakage would the experts recommend to learn C?

Should I start with C or C++?

Start with Java to learn the the OO concepts and the basic syntax (syntax is only little different from C/C++ ). Then go to C++.
Going directly to C++ often causes that you start using bad OO programing concept to solve difficult things.
Better you start thinking OO right away thats why I would not recommend starting with C.

Gregor

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