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[Imperceptus]

I would honestly look into VB Express or VB.Net and do multi-threading that way.  Its muchos easier imho.

[Joe[x86]]

@LoRd and Warrior: Awesome! I got it working thanks to you guys! No.

[Eric]

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@LoRd and Warrior: Awesome! I got it working thanks to you guys! No.

I've provided you with all that you need short of the actual code.  If all you wanted was to steal someone elses work, you should have said so.

Since you're not willing to do any actual work, perhaps you should Google up a control that has it already done for you.

[Forged]

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@LoRd and Warrior: Awesome! I got it working thanks to you guys! No.

The easiest way to do it would be to make the form have a textbox and minimize it to the tray when you are not using it.  That is what I did anyway.

[Joe[x86]]

=/. Well, LoRd[nK], perhaps if MSDN wasn't so confusing, I'd be willing to do it. All their examples are in C-ish syntax, and their explinations use terms foreign to me, so no. Just no.

[Warrior]

I don't get how you can't port it..you know data types right? You know the structure of an API call right? At the bottom it tells you the library to use and everything, it's easy.

[hismajesty]

Indeed, the MSDN pages are done in such a way that the content can be easily translated across multiple languages.

[NicoQwertyu]

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@LoRd and Warrior: Awesome! I got it working thanks to you guys! No.

The easiest way to do it would be to make the form have a textbox and minimize it to the tray when you are not using it.  That is what I did anyway.

What "form?"  He's writing a console app in VB (eww ).

[Forged]

By default all vb programs still have a form, you just hide it when you launch the console.

[Eric]

By default all vb programs still have a form

No they don't.

[UserLoser.]

By default all vb programs still have a form

No they don't.

I think he means with default VB IDE settings, when you create a new 'Standard EXE' project, it has a form already there named 'Form1'

[Eric]

By default all vb programs still have a form

No they don't.

I think he means with default VB IDE settings, when you create a new 'Standard EXE' project, it has a form already there named 'Form1'

Yes, but you don't have to use it... or even bother to hide it; just remove it and set the program to start in main().

I don't really see a point in adding a window to a console program... you can type directly from a console and by adding a window you'd defeat the purpose of using a console at all.

[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.

[UserLoser.]

Use a message or network loop?  It's quite easily possible to 'trick' VB into executing a non-stop loop using DoEvents as a your message loop while still performing other functions.

[Forged]

By default all vb programs still have a form

No they don't.

I think he means with default VB IDE settings, when you create a new 'Standard EXE' project, it has a form already there named 'Form1'

Right, but he has been stupified by your responses to his question.

Yes, but you don't have to use it... or even bother to hide it; just remove it and set the program to start in main().

I don't really see a point in adding a window to a console program... you can type directly from a console and by adding a window you'd defeat the purpose of using a console at all.