Hey, (1) Just wanted to say Kudos to you for the Multiplayer Game Programming book...excellently written and I was FINALLY able to learn (properly) how to use DirectPlay8.0! (2) Just a comment. On any of the samples, or even applications that I''ve begun to create using some of your code as a guidance, I ran into a scenerio on my win98/2k boxes where the dpnsvr thread wouldn''t die after quitting ALL directplay code....If I didn''t kill it in the task manager, it would give me strange results the NEXT time I''d try to run a sample (or my game server)... I did some hunting on the DirectX developer mailing list archives, and I came across a note from an MS employee that you should call CancelAsyncOperation before calling the close function on either your dplay client or server interface... (he mentioned the info is in the DirectX8_Docs_Readme.txt file of the /docs/directx8 directory of the SDK) I tried it out, and it seemed to do the trick for me! Just passing this along in case someone else has been having a few weird things happen with DirectPlay8... Erik

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>> dpnsvr.exe will stay around for 10 minutes after the last host is
>> closed. You can terminate it manually with dpnsvr /kill.

Thanks for the tip! I must have missed that.

LostLogic
www.lostlogic.com
Author, Multiplayer Game Programming

LostLogic: No prob man. Just trying to help out...I never even NOTICED that readme.txt file before...sheesh.

Ajoling: I must''ve missed that part of the docs...thanks for pointing it out..

FVector4: Yeah the same thing happened to me on win2k (I forgot to clear received messages as well.. ) Hopefully this little function clears at least some of those problems up a bit..hehe

Wazoo

It isn''t in the docs I believe... I got it from one of the Microsoft DX8 programmers =-) (microsoft.directx.networking, or something)

FVector4...umm do NOT use the DPNCANCEL_ALL_OPERATIONS flag..

I checked the newgroup post again from the MS employee and he mentioned that they had nothing but problems with this one..if I recall correctly, he mentioned that you had to explicitly cancel each ASYNC operation individually...(you know NOW would be a good time for me to actually post a link to that article....

hang on, I''ll dig around for it..)

Wazoo

try out this link and see if it works

Dplay discussion link

(Wow someone who actually posts a link as a true link!)

Wazoo

Thanks, I believe I''ve never seen this forum thing. Every DirectPlay resource is welcome

btw, I''m not sure..but i believe the Cancel_ALL thing works fine for me under Windows 2000 (Or it''s just the VB DX version that supports it, while the C version doesn''t)