creating MooSock connection statement

[itsALaCroix]

As part of an event I am going to connect to my server using MooSock Object. I right click under the space under the moosock object and select connect. I get the calculator window. What do I place here? I try Connect to EditText$(“server”) on port Edit Value(“port”) " and fill in the server name and port number but get invalid statement. Thanks.

[Phi]

DarkSocket is probably a better option for what you are using, but that action should work fine. The port may be text-based as MooSock is rather quirky.

[LB]

I'd really recommend using DarkSocket as it is under active development by SortaCore, or Lacewing Socket when Jamie gets around to making it, as MOO is no longer supported and it is very buggy.

As for your problem, I tried what you tried and I think the problem is that you are using “angled” quotes while MMF2 expects "straight" quotes. Other than this I have no idea what your problem could be besides a mistyped object name.

[itsALaCroix]

What is the difference between “angled” quotes and "straight" quotes?
like this? "Connect to EditText$('mywebsite.com') on port Edit Value('80')"

[LB]

No, like this:

Where "Server IP" and "Port" are the actual names of the edit box objects.

[itsALaCroix]

So I have to make edit boxes and set them to the appropriate values before i can assemble this statement?

[LB]

Oh, from your original post I thought you wanted this.

No, you can simply enter "server.klikfarm.com" (in quotes) and 1203 (not in quotes) for example.

[itsALaCroix]

Sorry for the confusion. I am trying to follow the tutorial on this page: http://www.clickteam.com/eng/resources/online_score/onlinescoreboards.html

OnlineScoreboardTut.jpg

-> MooSock object: Connect to "youraddresshere" on port 80

[James]

The high score tutorial is a bit outdated - you'd probably do better to use the Get object than try to operate HTTP manually.

[DavidN]

Like I mentioned to you over email, definitely use the Get object (you can download it from the extensions forum) - then you can just send a web address and parameters (the part in the 'Send Line' action of the Moosock object) and you don't have to worry about any of the HTTP header stuff at all. It's got a lot easier to do this since I wrote that tutorial...