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[Joe[x86]]

Aha, DoEvents. THANK YOU USERLOSER!!! <33.

Thanks to everyone else who tried to help too. <33.

[Mephisto]

My way of doing it (though C++ oriented, you could do it in VB I think).

I have not tested it yet, but I believe with the API MsgWaitForMultipleObjects(...) you can wait on STD output handles, which in turn could allow you to actively be in a state of accepting console text, which you can have the user input and then send those to battle.net when that handle triggers.

You could also create a new thread dedicated to Battle.net message I/O.  Have it wait for user input, send the message, display the results, and repeat.

[NicoQwertyu]

I believe what you want done can be accomplished, without creating threads, by using WaitForMultipleObjects() -- along with the console's stdin and socket's handles.

Edit: Actually, I think you'd need to use select(), because WaitForMultipleObjects doesn't allow socket descriptors.