FileSender Source Code (Lacewing)

[LB]

Most of you know about my FileSender, and you've all seen Stephen1980's. Well, just to show how it can be done, I am posting the source of mine. This time it is the Lacewing source so you don't have to convert my old outdated source from OINC.

There are two files, the working one "FileSender_Lacewing.mfa", which is the one you should be looking at for how to do it. However it's dev-only, so I also have included a "FileSender_Lacewing_NO_DEV.mfa", which you SHOULD NOT USE. It is for 'display' only. The reason is that A. it grabs username from command line, if there isn't a username given it closes. B. It doesn't ask to overwrite files, they will be overwritten anyway.

It is up to you to make your own system for file sending based on what you need it for. Please don't copy code if you don't have any idea what it's for or how to implemen it into your app!

If you have any questions, please ask here. SendBytesSize is the variable for how large each packet of the file being sent hould be. Jamie says the max is 1024 because of how the header is, but you can get errors as low as 512, so I used 416 for the size. This is NOT how much it sends each second, but rather, it is how much it sends each frame of the application.

Good luck with using it,
-LB

[James]

Jamie says the max is 1024 because of how the header is

I don't remember saying that! It should let you send more than a few KB - not sure why it doesn't.

You can't transfer ridiculously huge packets though - mainly because Lacewing has to buffer the whole packet, and because it'd block the TCP stream and the ping/pong messages wouldn't get through in time.

[LB]

Remember with OINC I used to get errors "The packet is too large to BLAST, please use SEND instead" if I sent higher than 512 bytes. I was using SEND. I just don't know if you ever fixed that or not. I'll try!

[LB]

Forgot to reply to this thread but as you can see from the latest version of filesender I am definantly sending a lot more now without problems.

Thanks Jamie, I would have never sent much more than that, lol!

[James]

No problem - glad it's working out for you now!

[Phi]

LB, you do know Superbar only works on Windows 7, right?

[LB]

Yes. Why do you ask?

[Phi]

Might want to make a note of that in case the user doesn't know

[Tim]

I could add a feature "Is OS supported" to the extension, the only problem is that the source won't compile anymore

I might try and fix that later

[LB]

Why do you need to add that feature? If the OS doesn't support it then nothing happens. I mean, it's not it'll will crash or anything! I've done lots of testing and it doesn't matter if it is run on Windows 7 or not.