CF2.5 Request

[Conno]

Is there any chance of us getting native (to CF2.5) network/socket support, rather than going through extensions? I prefer to work with existing protocols, or create my own when designing apps/games - and the best extension for this (that I've found) so far is MooSock - as it leaves the protocol structure completely up to me, and has little bloat. Whenever I design a game/app that uses networking I normally write the back-end in C#.

At the very least, will MooSock be converted for use with the HTML5 exporter?

Thanks!

[LB]

I think that until F3 the best we can hope for is extension support. In my free time I might make a socket extension using lacewing, but I could only support is on platforms that James' liblacewing runs on. I have no desire to deal with raw sockets, unless they have reasonable abstraction on the platform in question.

In particular, if you could research how to do socket work and networking in HTML5 and even find libraries that abstract it more, then extension developers such as myself may be more inclined to work on it.

A thing to consider is that liblacewing uses pushing streams (he library tells you that data has arrived), whereas many socket libraries use pulling streams (you ask the library if data has arrived), so that is an important factor.

[happygreenfrog]

Conno, the Moo objects have been abandoned by their original developer. They actually weren't made by Clickteam, even though they were included with MMF2. As a result, I'm doubting that it will ever get converted to HTML5.

[Jeff]

No it would need to be a new extension.
Put in a request in the bug box and maybe it can be considered.

[Conno]

Conno, the Moo objects have been abandoned by their original developer. They actually weren't made by Clickteam, even though they were included with MMF2. As a result, I'm doubting that it will ever get converted to HTML5.

Oh, I know, well aware of the history of Moo extensions. I've been around long enough :-)

I was just citing that I'm stuck using an extension that old.

LB - I'll do some research on it.

Thanks Jeff, will do.