Hello all,
This is my first post on this forum, so first short introduction, I'm Daniël, a 17 year old programmer with an obsession for aviation... Today i started writing an application to fly so-called "shared cockpit" in Microsoft Flight Simulator. This application should include both the possibilities to serve as server or as client, connect to the other program over hamachi (so, on a specified IP address), then start sending data to synchronize both cockpits and planes. I decided to start with the connection part, as this is where I have the least experience with. Here is what I wrote so far (examples on the internet generally use much more code so maybe this looks stupid to you, but please remember this is the first time i work with winsock :sick:):
Compiling went good the first try immediately. Now using localhost (127.0.0.1) on the client all works fine, but when trying the hamachi IP (25.93.147.153) it throws an exception with the description: ''The requested address is not valid in its context'' (WSAEADDRNOTAVAIL). I already found out the exception was thrown when creating the winsock client, therefore it must be a winsock problem. Searching on google learned me that ''This normally results from an attempt to bind to an address that is not valid for the local machine.''. I have continued searching for the answer, tried some things myself, but nothing seems to work.... Anyone here who can help out please? I really don't know more what to do. :sick:
Thanks,
Daniël
This is my first post on this forum, so first short introduction, I'm Daniël, a 17 year old programmer with an obsession for aviation... Today i started writing an application to fly so-called "shared cockpit" in Microsoft Flight Simulator. This application should include both the possibilities to serve as server or as client, connect to the other program over hamachi (so, on a specified IP address), then start sending data to synchronize both cockpits and planes. I decided to start with the connection part, as this is where I have the least experience with. Here is what I wrote so far (examples on the internet generally use much more code so maybe this looks stupid to you, but please remember this is the first time i work with winsock :sick:):
Code:
Option Explicit On
Imports FSUIPC
Imports System.Threading
Imports System.Net
Imports System.Net.Sockets
Imports System.Text
Public Class Form1
Dim FSUIPCconnected As Boolean = False
Private isConnectedFlag As Boolean
Private Client As TcpClient
Private Server As TcpListener
Private mobjClient As TcpClient
Private mode = 0 '0 is server, 1 is client
Dim bytes(256) As Byte
Dim data As String = Nothing
Private Sub Form1_Load(sender As System.Object, e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
TextBox2.Text = "1544"
End Sub
Private Sub button1_click() Handles Button1.Click
If isConnectedFlag = False Then
Try
Label4.Text = "Listening.."
Server = New TcpListener(IPAddress.Any, Convert.ToInt32(TextBox2.Text))
Server.Start()
mobjClient = Server.AcceptTcpClient
Label4.Text = "Connected"
isConnectedFlag = True
Catch ex As Exception
MsgBox(ex.Message)
End Try
Else
If MsgBox("Are you sure you want to disconnect?", MsgBoxStyle.YesNo, "FS-Share") = MsgBoxResult.Yes Then
Client.Close()
Server.Stop()
End If
End If
End Sub
Private Sub button2_click() Handles Button2.Click
If isConnectedFlag = False Then
Try
Dim EP As New IPEndPoint(IPAddress.Parse(TextBox1.Text), Convert.ToInt32(TextBox2.Text))
Client = New TcpClient(EP)
If Client.Connected = True Then
Label4.Text = "Connected"
isConnectedFlag = True
Else
Label4.Text = "Not Connected"
isConnectedFlag = False
End If
Catch ex As Exception
MsgBox(ex.Message)
End Try
Else
If MsgBox("Are you sure you want to disconnect?", MsgBoxStyle.YesNo, "FS-Share") = MsgBoxResult.Yes Then
Client.Close()
Server.Stop()
End If
End If
End Sub
End ClassThanks,
Daniël