help with installing a CHAT CLIENT/SERVER
i cant seem to get my chatclient or chatserver to successfully connect to my server. even if i do a local host 127.0.0.1 thing it STILL says that it cannot connect.
the server is a stand alone.
is there a general place to install the compiled files?
im SO frustrated right now.
im writing a card game. it is done but now i need to implement the networking. so im starting with a simple chat server and i cant even get THAT to work.
HELP.....
Are you using TCP/IP or Datagrams for communication? Either way, make sure your server is up and listening on a port before starting up your client. Then, as Breakfast indicated, make sure your client is attemping to connect to the same port as your server is listening.
I'm actually working on a card game (client/server if I can) as well, when I spotted this message. Card games work for me because they're simple, they're relatively fun and easy to figure out, and they aren't real-time or heavy on animation/sprites/hardware acceleration.
http://vpoker.sourceforge.net/ is a java based card game that has some excellent examples of how to conceptualize a 'card' object and a 'deck' of cards.
good luck, can try emailing me if you want to toss around ideas about our respective card games.
