atTcpSock

The atTcpSock provides a wrapper of the Windows WinSock2 asynchronous socket API, and provides the following functionality to plugin developers:

• Socket creation / destruction.
• Opening listen sockets, accepting client connections.
• Connecting sockets.
• Sending and receiving data asynchronously.
• Retrieving connection information.
• Handling Winsock2 callbacks (OnConnect, OnAccept, OnRecv, OnClose, etc.)
• Retrieving Winsock2 error codes.

To use the features of atTcpSock, we call the extension functions exported by the plugin, the prototypes of which are shown in this snapshot of the extension function explorer plugin:

To actually use this plugin, it is recommended that you use the 'CzTcpSock' wrapper class, which is included in the source code for the zChatClient plugin (C++ source code here). This plugin demonstrates how to use all of the socket functions provided by the atTcpSock plugin (via the CzTcpSock class).

2013/05/31 — Released v13.05.0.0, with support for post-2.9 versions of L3DT.

2008/04/28 — Released v2.5.3.4, with improved send buffer handling.

2008/04/25 — Released v2.5.3.3, with improved OnRecv callback handling.

2008/03/30 — Released v2.5.3.0.