mini massenger working

[hammad khan]

i'm working on a massenger and i'm facing the following difficulties

first i'm trying to get the IP of a client computer by the name by the following function

sf::IpAddress ip("computer name");

this function works sometimes, and sometimes it don't work, while the client name is present on the LAN.

and second please elaborate the receive function.
how it works.
and if it don't receive anything than what it'll be return.

[Ixrec]

and second please elaborate the receive function.
how it works.
and if it don't receive anything than what it'll be return.

This is what documentation is for.  Go read it.

this function works sometimes, and sometimes it don't work, while the client name is present on the LAN.

According to the documentation for that function, the argument should be "either a decimal address (ex: "192.168.1.56") or a network name (ex: "localhost")."  So I don't think it's meant to take computer names.  I'm pretty sure actual networks don't use computer names anyway; that's what IP addresses are for.

[Laurent]

So I don't think it's meant to take computer names

It takes a host name, which may be different from what you call the "computer name".

[hammad khan]

this function also used to get the ip by computer name, and also by host name.