CreateBroadcastListener

Family: Multiplayer · 2 forms

What it does

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

Syntax

1
CreateBroadcastListener(port integer) → integer
2
CreateBroadcastListener(szIP string, port integer) → integer

Parameters

NameTypeIn forms
portintegerall
szIPstring2

Every form returns

integer

Example · generated

Form 1, the short one

broadcastListener = CreateBroadcastListener(1)DO  Sync()LOOP

Form 2, with every argument

broadcastListener = CreateBroadcastListener("value", 1)DO  Sync()LOOP

CreateBroadcastListener 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