Hi Antoine,

do you know the good old "xtranet.x32" Xtra ?
It was able to establish TCP/IP connections and you could send raw data through sockets. My question: does your asUDP xtra also support TCP in any way ?
If not, which xtra would you choose to deal with TCP in Director? Do you know any?

The thing is: it is supposed to work on MAC and PC with D10 (and D11 but not as important). I could not find any support for the xtranet xtra for mac...

Cheers,

Michael
(Montreal, Canada)

Hello,
sorry, no, the asUDP can only do UDP..
Did you try the original xtranet in D10 ? It should work...
Otherwise, you can try the MultiuserXtra, that does TCP and UDP, but needs a central server. It really depends on your needs.
Good luck !

hello again and thank you for your answer
yes I did several research prototypes in several versions of director on the pc using xtranet.
worked fine until d10.
but now I need it to work on the mac (d10 or d11).
I dont have a mac version of xtranet. is there one at all ?
In case you have it or know where to find it, i would really appreciate the info, since this old but more or less good working xtra seems to be really hard to find.

i already thought about the multiuserxtra, i guess i will also try it.

and another question: I never used UDP before. what do you think regarding to the possible loss of data using UDP in a "perfect" network environment (a bunch of computers connected through a fast LAN) on the one hand and a heavy used internet connection (e.g. from Canada to Europe, or all over the world) on the other hand?
Maybe it is not a big deal to change to UDP if all the packets reach their destination ?

thanks and greetings, michael



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/24/2009 11:31PM by dmb.

Given my experience, I would not rely on UDP for perfect package delivery. It really looses data from time to time, or it comes in a different order than it was sent, especially in a public network.

multiuser is really nice. I have done a few projects in TCP using it.

Good luck !