BASIC commandsMultiplayer

HostNetwork

Family: Multiplayer · 2 forms

What it does

HostNetwork takes szNetworkName (a string), szMyName (a string) and port (an integer), and answers an integer. That is the first of 2 forms.

Syntax

1
HostNetwork(szNetworkName string, szMyName string, port integer) → integer
2
HostNetwork(szNetworkName string, szMyName string, port integer, portv6 integer) → integer

Parameters

NameTypeIn forms
szNetworkNamestringall
szMyNamestringall
portintegerall
portv6integer2

Every form returns

integer

Example · generated

Form 1, the short one

DO  Print(HostNetwork("player", "player", 1))  Sync()LOOP

Form 2, with every argument

DO  Print(HostNetwork("player", "player", 1, 1))  Sync()LOOP

HostNetwork 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.

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