Console Chatbot (Sending Messages)

[Joe[x86]]

I've written a fairly good console chatbot over the past few days.. except.. it can't chat. Does anyone have any idea how I'd send messages from a console without the bot specifically asking for them?

EDIT -
Perhaps I should ask for a message, get on with life, and once ones finally returned, repeat?
No go. It stops all events until a message is returned. If it was simply the way I did it..

On CSB_LoggedOnAs:

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Call StartChat()

My StartChat Sub

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Public Sub StartChat()
    Dim S as String
    Let S = Console.ReadText()
    Call frmCSBEvents.CSB.Send(CStr(S))
    Call AddChat("<" & frmCSBEvents.CSB.Username & "> " & CStr(S))
End Sub

[Eric]

Does anyone have any idea how I'd send messages from a console without the bot specifically asking for them?

The same way you would from a non-console app.

[Joe[x86]]

The same way you would from a non-console app.

Okay, lets do it your way then. Does anybody know how I can load a textbox on my console that I can type in? No? Hrm, must not be the same way.

[Eric]

EDIT -
No go. It stops all events until a message is returned. If it was simply the way I did it..

Generally that's solved by putting ReadConsoleInput() in an infinite loop in main() and creating a seperate thread for other functions.

[Eric]

x86] link=topic=11667.msg113392#msg113392 date=1116787212]

The same way you would from a non-console app.

Okay, lets do it your way then. Does anybody know how I can load a textbox on my console that I can type in? No? Hrm, must not be the same way.

CreateWindow().

[Joe[x86]]

How do I use a second thread in VisualBasic?

[Eric]

CreateThread().

[Warrior]

*rofl* Lord

[Joe[x86]]

Does anybody want to help me here? All I can get out of what LoRd[nK] is telling me is that I need to use an API call.

[hismajesty]

Click the links.

[Eric]

x86] link=topic=11667.msg113404#msg113404 date=1116790002]
Does anybody want to help me here? All I can get out of what LoRd[nK] is telling me is that I need to use an API call.

Were you expecting this to be easy?

[Warrior]

well he got baby fed the console code, so I'd assume yes :p

[UserLoser.]

DarkMinion supplied a simple example a long time ago.  It is here.  Yes, it's in C++, but it's no harder to translate it into VB code than it would be to read documentation somewhere else.

Don't use _beginthread() and _endthread(), use CreateThread() and ExitThread(), or don't use any at all and just find a workaround for it which shouldn't be too hard

[111787]

Use WinExec()

[Eric]

Use WinExec()

WinExec() doesn't create a new thread.  It executes an application.