Introduction
This tutorial covers the free SocketWrench
control from Catalyst
Development, and how to use it for Windows Socket programming. If you are
not familiar with TCP/IP, I recommend you read the Introduction
to TCP/IP tutorial first.
Because SocketWrench has a large number of properties, you might feel overwhelmed
when you start reading through the technical reference material. Don’t
worry -- you only need to understand how to use a handful of properties and
events to get started. Once you’ve become more comfortable and knowledgeable
about sockets programming, you’ll appreciate the power and flexibility
that SocketWrench gives you.
Each control that you use corresponds to one socket, which may or may not be
connected to a remote host. If you need access to multiple sockets, you must
use multiple controls, typically as a control array. This is most commonly needed
when your application acts as a server and must be able to handle several connections
at one time.