timed actions

[Daniel]

Hi

How do i set a socket to wait for a reply after a set time frame? For
example the following scenarios:

1) Give a user 10 seconds to respond after which time send an automatic
message to the server from the client to do a default action
2) set a time limit to give the server time to respond before continuing

I have a lobby as part of my project and i need the lobby data to be
retrieved from the server. I do this by initialising a lobby object on the
server when it starts. All clients who connect send a request for the lobby
and i then serialise this object and send it to the client who deserialises
it initialising their local object to an exact copy of the server lobby
object at that point.

So i would like to set some form of time frame not only for general timeouts
but for making sure my client has the lobby data before continuning. Whats
the best way?

[Vadym Stetsyak]

Hello, Daniel!

D> How do i set a socket to wait for a reply after a set time frame? For
D> example the following scenarios:

D> 1) Give a user 10 seconds to respond after which time send an automatic
D> message to the server from the client to do a default action
D> 2) set a time limit to give the server time to respond before continuing

Does user interact via graphical user interface (GUI)? If so you can consider timed actions on the GUI level.
You can use System.Windows.Forms.Timer for the purpose of timed events...

OTOH you can use System.Threading.Timer if you want the timed event to be executed on the level of network I/O
--
Regards, Vadym Stetsyak
www: http://vadmyst.blogspot.com

[segue]

Did you find an answer to this?

I’m looking for some vb.net syntax for binding an event to a thread that I
can abort after a few seconds when the udpclient connection fails to get a
response. This is part of a forms based application. I'm passing some values
in the processing.

segue

"Daniel" wrote:

Hi

How do i set a socket to wait for a reply after a set time frame? For
example the following scenarios:

1) Give a user 10 seconds to respond after which time send an automatic
message to the server from the client to do a default action
2) set a time limit to give the server time to respond before continuing

I have a lobby as part of my project and i need the lobby data to be
retrieved from the server. I do this by initialising a lobby object on the
server when it starts. All clients who connect send a request for the lobby
and i then serialise this object and send it to the client who deserialises
it initialising their local object to an exact copy of the server lobby
object at that point.

So i would like to set some form of time frame not only for general timeouts
but for making sure my client has the lobby data before continuning. Whats
the best way?