David Janik-Jones wrote:
>
> Assumption: I have a single small screen with one button and one text field.
> The computer is connected to the Internet.
>
> I click the button and I'd like to have the machine's current IP address
> determined/read and put into the text field.
>
> Is this (simple) thing possible? What code is needed to read the computer's
> IP address?
>
> David (with many thanks to all those who offer advice and help to us all!)
>
put line 1 of hostnametoaddress("yahoo.com")& ":80" into temp
open socket to temp
put hostaddress(temp) #your machine ip address
close socket temp
Notice that you must open a connection to a remote address first in
order to get yours.
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Andu
