Question

I am using Synapse with blocking sockets and try to simply send text to the connected client. Here comes the code:

var
SServer: TTCPBlockSocket;
SClient: TTCPBlockSocket;

implementation
//Create and initialize the Sockets.
procedure TForm1.FormCreate(Sender: TObject);
begin
    SClient := TTCPBlockSocket.Create;
    SServer := TTCPBlockSocket.Create;
    SServer.Bind('127.0.0.1', '12345');
    SClient.Connect('127.0.0.1', '12345');
end;

//Wait for connections.
procedure TForm1.FormShow(Sender: TObject);
begin
    SServer.Accept;
    //SServer.Listen; <- Could also work here?
end;

//Send the string to the connected server.
procedure TForm1.Button3Click(Sender: TObject);
begin
    SClient.SendString('hi server');
end;

//Receive the string from the client with timeout 1000ms and write it into a memo
procedure TForm1.Button2Click(Sender: TObject);
var buf: string;
begin
    Memo1.Lines.Add(SServer.RecvString(1000));
end;

First, I click Button 3, then I click Button2. Doing so, there is nothing getting written inside the memo1 field.

Shouldn’t this work?

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****EDIT:****

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According to skramads comment, I have now split it up into 2 programs. Here we go:

Client:

var
  SClient: TTCPBlockSocket;

implementation

procedure TForm2.Button1Click(Sender: TObject);
begin
  SClient.SendString(Edit1.Text);
end;

procedure TForm2.FormCreate(Sender: TObject);
begin
  SClient := TTCPBlockSocket.Create;
end;

procedure TForm2.FormShow(Sender: TObject);
begin
  SClient.Connect('127.0.0.1','12345');
end;

Server:

var
  Form1: TForm1;
  SSocket: TTCPBlockSocket;

implementation

{$R *.dfm}

procedure TForm1.Button1Click(Sender: TObject);
begin
  SSocket.Bind('127.0.0.1','12345');
  SSocket.Listen;
end;

procedure TForm1.Button2Click(Sender: TObject);
begin
  Memo1.Lines.Add(SSocket.RecvString(1000));
end;

procedure TForm1.FormCreate(Sender: TObject);
begin
  SSocket := TTCPBlockSocket.Create;
end;

Still, this does not work as intended. I just get no data over there.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

You should read how socket communications work, for example here (English) or here (German). In short: the socket you listen() on on the server side is not used for the communication itself, you have to call accept() to open another socket as the partner for the client, and use that one to send and receive data. The listening socket is used solely to accept other connections from other clients, which you can then use to communicate between one server and several clients in parallel.

Maybe you should first examine a simple client/server demo application. The principles are the same, whether you use Synapse, Indy or low-level API programming.