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Note to Lost Logic

wazoo69 · 2001-09-19T08:07:49

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