Elysian Shadows

Well I finally started coding again, but wanted to start with something easy, and not to difficult. Work my way up. Well I made a vb6 winsock control chat that I thought I could use on other computers...Apparently the computers I was gonna chat on don't have mswinsck.ocx, and I can't install it. Is there an alternative to winsock that does the samething, but minus the .ocx dependencies, or atleast portable? Or is there a way I can make winsock work?

Are you limited to VB or can you write in C/C++/Java?

I know a little c++ but probably not enough to do the samething, but I could try. Although I haven't worked with a graphics library yet.

Why VB6 and not something a little bit more recent?

My very first game in high school was with vb6.

jtst1 wrote:I know a little c++ but probably not enough to do the samething, but I could try. Although I haven't worked with a graphics library yet.

If you want to make a GUI, you can try Qt. It has a simple network interface. SFML also has a very easy to use network library.

K-Bal wrote:

jtst1 wrote:I know a little c++ but probably not enough to do the samething, but I could try. Although I haven't worked with a graphics library yet.

If you want to make a GUI, you can try Qt. It has a simple network interface. SFML also has a very easy to use network library.

If you use SFML for network, download the 2.0 package and not the 1.6 package.
In 1.6 there is a serious design flaw, so you cant use selectors.

Edit. I found a vb6 class module online that someone created to replace winsock. It has much the same syntax, and it doesn't have any dependencies, so I am going to try and convert my program to it, and see if it works. It's call Unisock, found it on http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.php?p=3799361 if anyone wants to check it out. Looks promising.
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Nevermind it keeps crashing, and is buggy...Does QT have dependencies like .ocx's that have to be installed on every machine?