[Portis]

Hi,

I've got a working framework for a TCP/IP server that accepts messages from multiple clients, and I'm just wondering if I'm using the DFL socket events correctly.

Basically, it works like this.

1) Set up a standard D TcpSocket to act as a listener, bind, listen and initialise a SocketSet to handle the connections (there's nothing DFL specific in this code)
2) When the server 'form' starts up, do a 'socket.registerEvent' and monitor the 'ACCEPT' event on the listener socket
3) When the ACCEPT event is triggered, add the 'incoming' socket to the SocketSet and use a different 'socket.registerEvent' call to monitor the 'incoming' socket .. I call it the client socket
4) This second 'regsiterEvent' method will catch events like READ that will trigger when the client sends messages
5) When the client is closed, the server cleans up the client socket
It works just fine, I had about 30 clients (simple DFL forms) sending messages in semi-random intervals (one message every 1 to 3 seconds) and getting replies from the server.

It came about largely through trial and error after reviewing the DFL 'rps.d' example.

I'll paste the framework code here, just in case I'm not doing it the DFL way or someone could spot something that I could do better.

Thanks.

[Chris Miller]