I've been able to maintain at least a tenuous understanding of Verge's functions thus far, but I've found myself totally lost in trying to get netcode to work.

The most I've been able to do thus far is establish a connection, after studying the Vergechat code.

My initial idea was to have it so at the start of each gameloop, you send your mouse input to the other player and their game plays using that input. It wound up looking sort of like this:

void GamePlayLoop(){ // set to Hooktimer
if(Turn==ThisComputer){
MouseX=mouse.x;
MouseY=mouse.y;
MouseL=mouse.l;
MouseR=mouse.r;
SocketSendInt(Socket,MouseX);
SocketSendInt(Socket,MouseY);
SocketSendInt(Socket,MouseL);
SocketSendInt(Socket,MouseR);
}else{
MouseX=SocketGetInt(Socket);
MouseY=SocketGetInt(Socket);
MouseL=SocketGetInt(Socket);
MouseR=SocketGetInt(Socket);
}
//game code blahblahblah...

Obviously this did not work. The game would freeze up once your opponent's turn came up. This is in mind, I have a few specific questions and I'd also appreciate some general advice on how to pull this sort of thing off.

- Should you have a different socket for each variable you're sending back and forth, or do you do it all across one socket?

- Should I be sending data on every gameloop? Can the connection keep up with that?

- When you do a SocketSendInt or SocketGetInt will Verge wait to make sure the data has been sent and recieved before proceeding or do you need to set up some sort of while loop that won't go forward until it has the data it needs?

Time Wizard: You only need one socket per connection to a unique IP. Also, if you don't have anything like SocketHasData(), that's bad. Because, you need to check to see IF there's any data before trying to grab it. Otherwise, it'll crash, and that's bad.

Also! I recommend you send ALL your packets as strings rather than ints, especially if you're planning to use strings anywhere else with netcode.

void GamePlayLoop()

{

	// set to Hooktimer

	if(Turn == ThisComputer)

	{

		// Packet: MOUSE x y left_button right_button 

		MouseX=mouse.x;
		MouseY=mouse.y;
		MouseL=mouse.l;
		MouseR=mouse.r;
		SocketSendString(Socket, "MOUSE "+str(MouseX)

						+ " " + str(MouseY)

						+ " " + str(MouseL)

						+ " " + str(MouseR)

					);

	}

	else if (SocketHasData(Socket))

	{

		ParsePacket(SocketGetString(Socket));

	}

}



void ParsePacket(string s)

{

	string a = GetToken(s, " ", 0);

	

	if (!strcmp(a, "MOUSE"))

	{

		// Parse a mouse packet.

		MouseX = val(GetToken(s, " ", 1));

		MouseY = val(GetToken(s, " ", 2));

		MouseL = val(GetToken(s, " ", 3));

		MouseR = val(GetToken(s, " ", 4));

	}

	else

	{

		// Dump any unaccepted input to a log.

		Log("Unknown packet:" + s);

	}

}