Example: LuaSocket Simple Chat App

[Worm]

This example is a very simplistic chat program using the LuaSocket library to communicate via TCP/IP.

Skills Used: Basic TCP/IP Knowlege, System.LanInfo, Input Object, Paragraph Object, Page Timer, and the Lua Socket Library

[TJ_Tigger]

That is pretty slick

[Desmond]

That's a really cool application Worm! Lov'n it!

[Worm]

It has potential. I didn't have enough time at lunch to take it any further. I wanted to put some sort of acknowlegement in that the message was received back to the sender, but ran out of time.

Maybe another day

[Corey]

You know what would be really nice would be an application which would allow someone to see my desktop in real time but only when I say so, and specifically only in the area where I place the capture rectangle. Ideally on port 80. So you could whiteboard ideas in realtime while talking to someone on the phone without having to adjust your firewall. I developed something quasi-similar last year just using a time elapsed screencap uploader but it wasn't liquid enough to use in real time meaningfully.

"Remote Whiteboard" would be a great freeware app too. Maybe I'll try to figure that out again sometime now that we have sockets. I have to get this guitar app help doc done before anything else though. Feh...

[rhosk]

Originally Posted by Corey

You know what would be really nice would be an application which would allow someone to see my desktop in real time but only when I say so, and specifically only in the area where I place the capture rectangle.

I know this is a month old and don't know if you're up and about, but this is possible right now. I have a live broadcast from my
desktop HERE

I'll leave it up for a while (don't know what kind of server load this will be, but I'll be monitoring). Windows Media Encoder (free) can do this - screen, region, window, etc...And please, just check it out and don't stay on too long or I'll terminate it

It's my time window, so you can see that it's actually transmitting in real time.

This could forever change the way we answer questions on the forum

[rhosk]

OK, had about 14 hits. Gonna shut it down for now. If anyone wants info on how to do, let me know.

[Worm]

nice clock

[Intrigued]

I missed it! I had been at work for three and a half (31/2) hours already!

[Corey]

I missed it also as well too.

[rhosk]

OOKK, back on for a little while. I just don't know what this does to my server, let alone my processor, but it's up again (9:00 PM EST). I'll shut it back off at around 9:30 PM EST). I've received several PM's about this and I will get to you all. Maybe I'll just create a mini-tutorial and post it here. It's relatively easy to do I've realized that the delay is approximately 5-10 seconds, depending on Internet congestion/traffic, but I think it's still pretty neat. And I'm also pretty sure that you should be on a broadband connection to take advantage of this. Let me know differently if it works OK on a dial-up, but I doubt it. The bitrate I have it set at is "around" 150kpbs. The quality from here looks pretty good.

Click here

Gotta better lookin' clock this time

[rhosk]

(yawn) Back up for a little while.

[yosik]

Ron,
The delay can be reduced changing the bffer values in Windows Media Encoder and, at the other end, changing the buffer values of the Windows Media Player.

Yossi

[Intrigued]

Ah, good tip!

[paul186]

hi mates, the proyect reports me an error when i send a message after a time and shut down, it said that the error is in ntdll.dll library. anyone can help me to resolve the bug?