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Re: Get IP Address with tcp.ew? Today?!

• Posted by cklester <cklester at yahoo.com> Apr 23, 2004
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Jonas Temple wrote:
> cklester wrote:
> > Jonas Temple wrote:
> > > cklester wrote:
> > > > can somebody provide a routine whereby I can get the
> > > > PC's IP address? I don't understand Robert Szalay's
> > > > example MyIPAddr.exw, although it does what I need! :)
> > > Have you tried using the tcp_gethostbyname function?  It seems that you
> > > might want to call as:
> > > 
> > > sequence wrk_seq
> > > wrk_seq = tcp_gethostbyname(mywindow, "localhost")
> > > Or am I missing something?
> > Doing that, wrk_seq is set to 1.
> Yep, that's right.
> 
> You'll either get a number > 0 or a -1 (-1 being an error).  In your
> Win app you'll need to have an event handler to catch the WM_HOSTINFO
> message.  Once you get that message you'll call tcp_host_info()
> passing the returned valued from tcp_gethostbyname.  You'll get back
> (if everything works) a sequence of two elements, the first being the 
> ip address and the second being the host name.
> 
> You can cancel the host name lookup by calling tcp_cancel_lookup passing
> the value returned from tcp_gethostbyname.  Take a look at the example.txt
> that comes with the tcp.ew .zip.

Jonas, thanks for the help! I don't want to have to
do the event handler for WM_HOSTINFO. I don't get that. How
will it fit into my program? I think I'll just run "ipconfig"
and parse the output! :)