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Stop using full quotes!!! Only quote relevant bits or don't quote at all if the context is obvious!!!Haha I was going to remove some of the quotes, but I had food cooking in the kitchen. I was thinking "No one will complain about it this last time."
UDP and TCP do not function similarly at all, even if most networking libraries give similar APIs for them. You might want to read a bit more about what they actually are.
My bad, I don't need TCP. I'm using enet because it functions like a TCP connection. It is faster then a TCP connection, and saves a client or w/e onto a .peer class object so that when a UDP connection is received it keeps the connection running.
But that aside, his original question was why are you trying to use both SFML and ENet for your networking? Specifically, what feature is SFML lacking that ENet has? SFML supports UDP too.I'm using SFML's sf::Packet class because it's very easy to load and unload variables. enet would never send a sf::Packet, it would only send some binary data (which was created from the sf::Packet). Enet allows a client session instead of one simple UDP packet.
My bad, I don't need TCP. I'm using UDP because it functions like a TCP connection. It is faster then a TCP connection, and saves a client or w/e onto a .peer class object so that when a UDP connection is received it keeps the connection running.I'm using the enet network library to make my game utilize both TCP and UDP.The site explicitly states that Enet is a UDP networking library. For TCP you will have to use something else.
Is there a reason why you don't use SFML, do you need certain features?
Apparently you need to re-read my post. That's exactly what I wrote.Your post doesn't mention converting binary data to sf::Packet?
Don't send/receive sf::Packet with ENet. sf::Packet has its own internal protocol, which works well with SFML sockets, but won't be understood by other libraries.I really hope you're misunderstanding how I'm doing this. I really REALLY want to use sf::Packet to send stuff because it's easy to pack and unload variables. I plan on converting the packet into raw bytes so that sending the raw data won't interfere with anything. Can I do it this way? If not, how do you recommend I send data? If I send it as a string, I don't want to bother converting a string to an integer for position stuff.
// Server
sf::Packet packet = bleh;
bleh << variables;
bleh << positions; // Loading the packet up with stuff..
ENetPacket * packet = enet_packet_create (bleh.getData(), bleh.getDataSize() + 1, ENET_PACKET_FLAG_RELIABLE);
enet_peer_send (peer, 0, packet);
// Client
sf::Packet packet;
packet.append(event.packet->data, event.packet->dataLength);
void player::blah()
{
sf::Thread thread(&rawr, sf::Vector2f(6, 5));
thread.launch();
}
void player::rawr(sf::Vector2f dir)
{
//rawr stuff
}