Oinc Tutorial Videos!

I've seen and talked to a number of forumites that say they don't understand how Oinc works, or they think that Oinc is far more complicated than Moo. In my own mythbusting way, I have decided to start a series of tutorials (just like Jeff did for Moo) on how to use Oinc. So here they are:

The Chat Application: This introductory video runs you through the basics of OINC in a practical walk-through for making a simple chat application in about 15 minutes.
Tutorial Source .MFA

More coming soon! Got a request for a tutorial? Tell me!

Sorry

Could you please make the video public somehow? It's asking me to login to view it. Thanks.

I do apologise, I didn't realise that Vimeo automatically did that.

The video is now public.

Very good video :)

Jason

This video is amazing. Thank you, DizzyDoo, it really helps. As I see it isn't too difficult to use OINC!!
Really great!

Excellent! I especially loved it at time index 14:08 "Jeff wouldn't do this..."
It doesn't seem to be as complex as Moo either. can you make another chat video with a private message function too?
Keep up the great work.
A++

Yes, that's a fantastic tutorial - will help many, many people and hopefully raise the profile of OINC.

One thing I tend to do differently, is when getting your own user name for use in the history box, or whatever:

Upon connect - disable the edit box for usernames, and then instead of getting OINC self name data, take directly from the now fixed & disabled username edit box.

This is one less thing which has to be sent/recieved via the net, and I would imagine will ultimately result in a faster responding application/game.

This video is FANTASTIC!
I hope you do more video tutorials.
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I have a special place in my heart for some very common british words that no one uses in the USA. When you called something rubbish I really enjoyed it :)

Great work Matt! :) Very clear and concise!

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Originally Posted by Asholay

instead of getting OINC self name data, take directly from the now fixed & disabled username edit box.

This is one less thing which has to be sent/recieved via the net, and I would imagine will ultimately result in a faster responding application/game.

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When you set your name, it tells the server which name you want and the server responds with the name which has been assigned to you. This is what Self_Name$() returns - nothing extra is transferred over the network. You should use Self_Name$() rather than your method, to allow the server to modify the name of the client.