MMF2 + Network + PB

[LeoLamas]

Hi all!

I've purchased Purebasic too and i wanna make a little online game with its client made in MMF2Dev and the server coded in purebasic...

I have a lib called k-net for pb and pb also has its own network lib, my questions are: is it possible to connect a client made in MMF2 to this server regardless of the programming language used? What extension could i use, moo(sock, game), oinc?

Thanks in advance.

[Corentin]

MooSock is the only way because it has no protocol attached to it... But MooSock isn't perfect either, and you're going to have some trouble communicating with other protocols.

I'd say it's probably too hard. You should try pyLacewing for server side and lacewing extension

[LB]

If your Purebasic has an active X for the client you can use the active X object

[LeoLamas]

yeah.. i think moosock is my only hope on this... :/

but ive seen some exemples and it seems i need to 'write' the protocol myself...

anyone who can give me some exemples at how to do this? do i need to know purebasic network format?

[LeoLamas]

Wow! Ive finally gotten some nice results... im able to send strings using moosock and receive them on my server..

but actually id like to send numbers, int, float, etc, as well, because maybe strings are too slow on transfers on a game that needs fast responses and stuff... is there another way to send data which lets me send numbers?

[Fimbul]

None that I know of. That's why moo is no longer used.

[LeoLamas]

:/

i know moogame can send numbers, but i dont know if i can, and how to deal with 'subchannels' within purebasic's network lib, thats why i dont think it would work D:

[DizzyDoo]

Your best option would be to try and implement the Lacewing protocol into Purebasic. Going to be tricky, but Lacewing is the best by a long way in terms of networking for MMF2 right now.

[Corentin]

If you consider implementing lacewing in purebasic, you should definitely give a look at pylacewing first.

[James]

Any reason you need to use PureBasic for a server? With Lacewing you could use Python, MMF2 or C++.