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Newcomers AppGameKit Corner / Socket advantages?

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Posted: 12th Apr 2017 10:58
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Hello everybody.
I'm new at multiplayer programming, but I've made some working multiplayer functions using AppGameKit multiplayer commands.

I've seen some 'socket' commands in the multiplayer command list.
I imagine it's some sort of lower level access for multiplayer?

Can you guys explain in a gist of what these 'sockets' are, and their advantages compared to normal multiplayer commands?
Would be beneficial to steer me in the right direction.
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Phaelax
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Posted: 14th Apr 2017 02:02
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Sockets will work in HTML5, the other network commands do not. I'm not entirely sure how the multiplayer commands work, but sockets are a lot more versatile. You can custom build your packet and send it all at once. Whereas, as far as I can tell, the other commands send data as you write it rather than building up a buffer and flushing it out to the client.

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janbo
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Posted: 15th Apr 2017 15:07 Edited at: 15th Apr 2017 15:07
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Actually socket commands should be a higher abstraction than the Multilayer commands

Quote: "Whereas, as far as I can tell, the other commands send data as you write it rather than building up a buffer and flushing it out to the client"

YOU ARE building a packet and flushing it out like:

For the Multilayer commands you should manage the packet size by yourself but they can also differ from 1400 (max socket packet size)

The biggest difference for us is indeed sockets are working in HTML5 ^^

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You can add a byte to a socket packet, the smallest amount you can add to a regular packet is a 4 byte integer. (I know there are strings where you could possible add one char, but that must at least require another byte for termination, so at least 2 bytes there).
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