Hiya all

I want to make a little program that i can share around my A2 Level Maths class at college for when we go on study leave in a couple of weeks. I have made a few programs in VB 6, but I have no idea where to begin when online connections are required. I have the layout sorted, just need some help with the internet side of it.. which is most of it i guess...

Basically, what I would like to make, is a program that will:

a. provide a chat service with the following features:

i. simple text, not bothered about emoticons at this pont
ii. the chat needs to have buttons on the side that enable the user to input text like



iii. there are a list of advanced features that i would like to include, hopefully they will be possible; view the attached word file for the type of things we may wish to share online.


Basically I'm pleading for a glimmer in the right direction!

Thanks all!


Lenny x

This post has been edited by lenny: 4 May, 2004 - 11:41 AM

Made a chat program in VB once. I just used the winsock control, nice and (relatively) simple, and you can probably just send a signal of some kind (like an enumerated value, dunno, haven't done vb in a while) to notify the need for those special equations and whatnot. Just google winsock in vb, you will get everything you need.

I have not personally used this other than a VERY simple problem in my XML class, but the solution you should probably use is MathML... it's a DTD for XML that is for mathematical equations, a standard that allows complex problems to be shared on the web:

http://www.w3.org/Math/

Your number 1 easy choice will be winsock. I suggest TCP Connections. search www.pscode.com for some winsock examples. To undertake this, you will need knowledge of element arrays, as well as loops. Knowing about connections between a client and a server will help.