how to use flexsim socket communication with server and client

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Luke H asked May 13 2020 at 12:52 PM Regan Blackett answered May 15 2020 at 7:59 PM

how to use flexsim socket communication with server and client

Hi, i've been trying to use the worked examples from @Logan Gold on using a server and a client via using sockets but after trying to run the example not much seems to happens on my software with it not returning a 1 to show the client has connected, i kept his code with only changing the ip address and port to my own can someone please show me where i've gone wrong or where the values would be returned to as no console pops up showing these values

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FlexSim 19.1.2

flexsim 19.1.2 sockets server and client

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Answer 1 · 2020-05-13T21:48:44Z

Regan Blackett answered May 13 2020 at 9:48 PM

@Luke H

I used this document about 6 years ago to to build a training module for using socket connections. Maybe this will help.

https://cloud.flexsim.com/index.php/s/o9QEyNvcDyfznWK

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Ben Wilson ♦♦ commented · May 14 2020 at 3:35 PM

Attaching the document directly in case the link ever dies in the future:

Creating a Socket Connection in FlexSim.pdf

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creating-a-socket-connection-in-flexsim.pdf (221.0 KiB)

Luke H commented · May 14 2020 at 10:16 AM

thank you this was quite helpful but can you clarify where the value of 1 would be displayed when the connection is made

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Regan Blackett ♦ Luke H commented · May 14 2020 at 2:19 PM

You mean the value returned by serveraccept()? It's a value returned by the function and so needs to be stored in a variable like:

int client = serveraccept(0);

"client" now stores the result of whether or not a connection was made (1 for true, 0 for false)

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