opened socket in IDE prevents script changes

[matthias_livecode_150811 at m-r-d.de]

Thanks Alex.
I will keep your advice in mind.

Matthias

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Matthias Rebbe
Life Is Too Short For Boring Code

> Am 15.01.2021 um 18:22 schrieb Alex Tweedly via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>:
> 
> 
> On 15/01/2021 14:46, matthias rebbe via use-livecode wrote:
>> Alex,
>> for a new project which should include socket communication  i have to prototype a short "demo" and i was already wondering if i need to have running 2 instances of the LC IDE for development.
>> 
>> But now you wrote that you had one server and even multiple client stacks opened in LC.
>> So do i understand it correctly that both, server and client stack, can communicate with each other using sockets in one instance of the LC IDE?
> 
> Yes. A couple of cautions ...
> 
>  - make sure your handlers are carefully named
>     I had a bad habit of using the same name (_gotpacket) each time I wrote a socket-handling stack,
> so I had 'open socket ... with message "_gotpacket" '
> and then I used the same name when I wrote the server !!
> 
>  - beware "resetall". In the server stack, I do something like
> 
>>     -- would usually do
>>       --    resetAll
>>       -- but this causes problems with testing when you have both a client
>>       -- and a server within the IDE of Rev
>>       -- so here we will only reset those opensockets which have no 'host' part
>>       -- intending this to be the ones which we have a current 'accept'
>>       repeat for each line tSock in the openSockets
>>          if ":" is not in tSock then close socket tSock
>>       end repeat
>> 
> and in the client stacks I do the inverse (if ":" is in tSock ...). Note this is still a problem when you have multiple client stacks in the same IDE.
> 
> Finally,
> 
>  - when in doubt during testing - first reset the server, then the client.
> 
> 
> Good luck,
> 
> Alex.
> 
> 
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