Article: Using LuaSockets

[Brett]

See the attached document for full details.

From http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~diego/p...nal/luasocket/

"LuaSocket is a Lua extension library that is composed by two parts: a C core that provides support for the TCP and UDP transport layers, and a set of Lua modules that add support for functionality commonly needed by applications that deal with the Internet."

In other words, the LuaSocket library allows you to do both low-level and high-level TCP and UDP communication from AutoPlay Media Studio 6.0 projects.

[TJ_Tigger]

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[Dermot]

Wow! that's great!

Thanks Brett, that' sure to come in handy.

[Intrigued]

Brett. . . what happen to the bar? (as in, "raising the bar"). We are way beyound that!

Thanks for sharing! It might be another day in the code matrix for you... but it's a code maze for the rest of us (if I may be so bold).

[Worm]

Too cool! Simply too cool!

[Eagle]

Ditto * 4 ...

[TJ_Tigger]

Does this mean that there will be inter-app socket communications?

[Intrigued]

Brett, I noticed this in your documentation(again, thanks for sharing), FWIW:

package.cpath=_SourceFolder.."\\AutoPlay\\Scripts\ \?.dll;"

It looks like the semi-colon needs to be at the end?

[Dermot]

Originally Posted by Intrigued

Brett, I noticed this in your documentation(again, thanks for sharing), FWIW:

package.cpath=_SourceFolder.."\\AutoPlay\\Scripts\ \?.dll;"

It looks like the semi-colon needs to be at the end?

I copied and pasted Brett's code and it worked fine. Seems to work either way.

[Intrigued]

Ya, just looking for clarification. (hence the question mark at the end).

[Brett]

Actually the internal semi-colon is by design. That path allows for multiple search locations separated by semi-colons (even though I only specified one so it will work either way).

[Brett]

Originally Posted by TJ_Tigger

Does this mean that there will be inter-app socket communications?

As far as I can tell that should be possible. The LuaSocket library allows you to open sockets and send/recieve on them.

<Jack Bauer>Chloe, open up a socket! There's no time Chloe, I need that socket open NOW!</Jack Bauer>

[Intrigued]

Originally Posted by Brett

Actually the internal semi-colon is by design. That path allows for multiple search locations separated by semi-colons (even though I only specified one so it will work either way).

Ah, I gotcha. I thought I had seen you post something like this before and I was wondering....

[johnperry9]

Hi Guys,

Thank you guys for all of your great help. I am trying so hard to write two programs that will communicate with each other. The server where you can click on a button and it will put text in a text box on the client, also it would play a simple wav. This is a sort of "notification" software, where the server can send a preset message to the client over a network. If anyone knows how to use luasocket, or has any ideas, please please let me know. Thanks again.

[bule]

Originally Posted by Brett

<Jack Bauer>Chloe, open up a socket! There's no time Chloe, I need that socket open NOW!</Jack Bauer>

You almost killed me with this one...