CreateUDPListener

Family: Multiplayer · 2 forms

What it does

CreateUDPListener brings a Multiplayer object into being: it is how the rest of the program comes to have one. It takes ip (a string) and port (an integer), and answers an integer. That is the first of 2 forms.

Syntax

1
CreateUDPListener(ip string, port integer) → integer
2
CreateUDPListener(listenerID integer, ip string, port integer) → integer

Parameters

NameTypeIn forms
ipstringall
portintegerall
listenerIDinteger2

Every form returns

integer

Example · generated

Form 1, the short one

uDPListener = CreateUDPListener("value", 1)DO  Sync()LOOP

Form 2, with every argument

uDPListener = CreateUDPListener(1, "value", 1)DO  Sync()LOOP

CreateUDPListener is called and its answer is printed every frame. The DO … LOOP is not decoration: a classic BASIC program ends the moment it runs out of lines, and Sync() is what draws the frame.

91 commands in Multiplayer