Help with Streams please

First of all, let me introduce myself. I'm a newb in BMax and i want to implement network on a program i have finished. (quite a description huh? but i don't want to bore anyone)

I'm tired :(, i have like 3 days trying to make things work but i get to nowhere... i really need some help.

This is a really stupid question but here it goes. I want to write into a TSocketSTream...

I can use Write(int/byte/string) with file streams like:

local stream:TStream = WriteStream("test.txt")
WriteInt 5

How do i do the same with TSocketStreams?

if i do:

Local ss_stream:TSocketStream = CreateSocketStream(sk_socket)
ss_stream.WriteInt 5

it sais "Error Writing to Stream"

Any Clue?

And btw, i want to do this via sockets even if BnetEx sounds like the best choice... I would use GNet but there arent any working tutorials right now and i cant get it done by myself... :(

Thanks in advance!

Are you sure the sk_socket is open and hasn't been locally or remotely closed?
That's my first guess, as well as maybe a null pointer...

Thanks for yor reply! Well, here is a "complete sample" the later one misses just superstrict and the socket creation...

SuperStrict

Local sk_socket:TSocket = CreateTCPSocket()
Local ss_stream:TSocketStream = CreateSocketStream(sk_socket)

ss_stream.writeInt(5)

Still getting the same error :(

Hello

You need connect the socket with remote ip and port.
A socket is like a pipe. It have two points of conection. One is locale and another is remote.

You need use BindSocket() for local point and after ConnectSocket() for remote system.

Bye,
Paposo

Yep, that was the problem, i belived i could write to the TSocketStream w/o being connected to the host... now its working :) , tho i dont get why in the host side if i use StreamSize i get zero but i can read data from it.

Thanks a lot both!

Btw, my english is bad too :)

I would think that StreamSize would return -1 since a network connection isn't seekable. If you want to see how many bytes are available to read, then you could use SocketReadAvail().