Question Chat Clients Connected

[hawk]

Hello Folks,

I'm using VB2008 Express

using the code available to download here

Home-brew Your Own Instant Messenger App with Visual Studio .NET

1) Is it possible to set the client script to show whos online/connected?

2) Is the key the

Public Shared AllClients As New HashTable

3) How can this data be recovered?

thanks for any help and advice.

regards

Hawk

 

[JohnH]

1. yes
2. the AllClients shared HashTable contains the clients by ip string key.
3. discovered you mean? (or perhaps you lost it? ) iterate the Keys of the AllClients

For Each key As String In ChatClient.AllClients.Keys

or iterate the clients (in which case you may want to expose for example the nick as a readonly property)

For Each client As ChatClient In ChatClient.AllClients.Values

You may want to use a Dictionary(Of String, ChatClient) instead of the HashTable, which is a Dictionary(Of Object, Object).