Yes, I'm still trying to solve the mystery of Open Insight and sockets programming. I've have found a DLL written by SocketTools that I am trying to load into Open Insight and call from my program. Has anyone had any luck with this product? Does anyone know of any other DLL's that can be called from Open Insight that can be used to "sniff" a Socket.

Thanks to everyone (Steve) for your input and help in my endevor to solve this mystery.

As other people have probably told you, TCPIP programming with OI is not a very easy task. I have not used the SocketTools DLL myself, but we have been able to get OI to Communicate with equipment via TCPIP using some homegrown C++ routines as well as using another package to capture then data and then use DDE or some other method to get the data into OI. If I knew more about what exactly you were trying to do I could probably give you a more specific details.

Feel free to email me direct.

John Stamper

VSI Technologies, Inc.

jstamper@vsitech.com

This is the tool set we would use in these circumstances. We strongly recommend that you acquire the 16 bit version as this removes the need for a thunking layer.

To use it simply prototype all of the functions you require (essentially define the data types of the returned value and passed values for each SocketTools function you require - see the section on DLL programing in the OpenInsight manuals) then just call them from within your stored procedures. Be prepared for several BSODs while you get the prototypes right though .

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A fully worked example of prototyping functions can be found in our SENL article Getting a Handle - The FindWindow Function - Carl Pates

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