On Mon, 21 Sep 2015 18:58:14 +0200, Sven Barth <pascaldra...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>Am 21.09.2015 17:58 schrieb "Bo Berglund" <bo.bergl...@gmail.com>: >> >> On Mon, 21 Sep 2015 17:24:50 +0200, Sven Barth >> <pascaldra...@googlemail.com> wrote: >> >> >Am 21.09.2015 16:42 schrieb "Bo Berglund" <bo.bergl...@gmail.com>: >> >> Unfortunately since the existing code is built on non-blocking serial >> >> communications and events to handle the data reception I am at a loss >> >> right now concerning what TCP socket component to use. >> >> Indy is blocking, synapse is blocking and ICS being non-blocking is >> >> not open for commercial use and even so not really maintained for FPC >> >> either... >> > >> >You could take a look at the TInetSocket of the ssockets unit which is >part >> >of FPC (at least in 3.0.0, don't remember about 2.6.4). >> >> I tried to find information on this but it seems a bit difficult... >> Since I have Lazarus installed in my Win7 PC it would be good to know >> where in the installation I might find the units for this component. >> A search from the top of Lazarus finds a number of files with socket >> in their names but no ssocket file at all. >> The sockets.pas file I found indicates that it is for OS/2 only > >As I said it might be that you need at least 3.0.0. But you could try to >install the release candidate for that. >The code should be in lazarusdir/fpc/VER/packages/fcl-net/src (Note: path >might be not entirely correct as I don't have a Windows installation of >Lazarus in front of me right now). Thanks, in my installation it sits here: C:\Programs\lazarus\fpc\2.6.4\source\packages\fcl-net\src\ssockets.pp > >I can't say anything about TSocketClient, but the TInetClient in the >ssockets unit I mentioned is a class that's rather directly on top of the >native socket API, so that should definitely be able to handle it. Fine, then I just need to make it visible inside Lazarus... Right now after firing up the Lazarus IDE I cannot see any trace of it unfortunately. I decided to give it a shot by creating a test application but the palette does not sow even one internet component... -- Bo Berglund Developer in Sweden -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
