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DarkBASIC Professional Discussion / Is it possible to detect wether you are connected to the internet or not

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Terabyte
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Posted: 3rd Aug 2003 01:37
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(I am asking if you can detect being connected to the internet, not if you can detect being conected to another computer) [img][/img]
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of course it is

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Posted: 3rd Aug 2003 02:42
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Thankyou

Now would sombody like to tell me how

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Posted: 3rd Aug 2003 02:46
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open a web browser, go to google.com, if it loads, you're on the internet

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Posted: 3rd Aug 2003 03:08
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lol ok ok
enough with the jokes
I meant is there a command in dbpro which returns a value of 1 if you are connected to the internet

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There's no built-in command that will do this for you, but I do believe that there is a way you can do it with windows DLL's ... now I just have to remember where I saw it ...
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*twidles thums*


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They mentioned it on the other site actually...


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just try to connect to an FTP server an if it fails you either didnt have the right password or its not online, i believe that you can get a string of the error for this command...

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Posted: 3rd Aug 2003 13:25 Edited at: 3rd Aug 2003 13:26
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yup ED's got the right idea. thats what most games do.

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The answer to the original question is ... almost.

It turns out that the best you can do is check for a valid network connection. So you can check for that, then attempt to ftp the outside-world for a complete check.

Here are two pieces of code I've pasted together. Check each one out, and see which you get the best results from.
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cheers

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Posted: 3rd Aug 2003 14:47 Edited at: 3rd Aug 2003 14:49
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whoops double click

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um where does one start and the other end

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aha um
whats the diference between being online and being connected

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Being on-line is where you are connected to the ISP
Being connnect means your actually using the internet.

Could have those the wrong way around though...


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Your best bet is to try them out ... I have all sorts of network connections, and I don't use dial-up so it's hard for me to test this properly.
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hmm
if i want to use the ftp commands do i have to be online or connected or both. which one is essensial. I just turned on aol didnt visit any pages (except the annoying front page that appears) and the program said it was both online and conencted. I want to use ftp in my program and multiplayer commands. which of these statuses need to be on to use BOTH ftp and multiplayer commands.

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Posted: 3rd Aug 2003 16:26
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Disconnect, then try it again. Whichever one says that you aren't connected/online is the one you want.
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Posted: 3rd Aug 2003 17:04 Edited at: 3rd Aug 2003 17:05
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OK
im on a 56k aol connection That says it all

When Aol was either closed or running but NOT connected i got:

ONLINE
NOT CONNECTED

When Aol was connected (able to brows the net) i got:

ONLINE
CONNECTED

so it seems the only one that's worth using is the second one which uses the Wininet.dll

Heres the final source to decide wether or not you can exchange packets and view web pages (connected or not)




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Posted: 4th Aug 2003 00:12
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how about

PERFORM CHECKLIST FOR NET CONNECTIONS

? What does that do? lol

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Posted: 4th Aug 2003 00:14
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It tells you what is available, not what is active.

So dial-up TCP/IP is available even if you're not connected...
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ah, i see. i think my next project might be multiplayer, so i can learn what the commands are.

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well my program so far works thanks to all this connection code and ftp stuff...um apart from the slight bugs with one of them...when are these bugs going to be fixed anyway...when is patch 5 planned for release. are they all to be released for patch 5. bugs going to be fixed and diferent beta versions released. or will we have to wait for full version.

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