Sending a string of text from server to client and vice versa

Unity Engine
1

So I’m working on a mostly text based game, and its almost done… well if not being able to play it in network can be counted as almost than yeah…

I just need to send text from text box on a server to a label on a client, and vice versa. I’ve been trying to find something relevant to my problem but nothing came up.

Here’s my code:

using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.UI;
using System.Collections;

public class NetTesting : MonoBehaviour {

    public string connectionIP = "127.0.0.1";
    public int connectionPort = 25001;

    public Text status;

    public void ClientConnect()
    {
        Network.Connect("127.0.0.1", 25001);
    }

    public void Host()
    {
        Network.InitializeServer(32, connectionPort, false);
    }

    void Update()
    {
        if (Network.isServer)
        {
            status.text = "You are the host";
        }
        if (Network.peerType == NetworkPeerType.Client)
        {
            status.text = "You are the client";
        }
        if (Network.peerType == NetworkPeerType.Disconnected)
        {
            status.text = "Disconnected";
        }
    }

}

I won’t even bother posting all the things I’ve tried to make it work.

Thank you people!

2

I’m sure I’m the wrong person to be answering questions, but I don’t see any attempt in this code to send text anywhere, or even a reason to send text anywhere.

For a text based game, I’m sure you’ll probably want to use the high level API for networking.

3

I’ve removed the code I’ve been trying to use, cause none of it seemed to work. I didn’t manage to make something that even remotely makes sense. I was hoping someone can give me an example.

4

If it’s really just about sending strings, I’d just use standard C# sockets as they are very easy to use if you have some experience with them.

5

Thats the second plan, but the problem is that both server and client have to be synced. Is there any simple messaging example or something like that? I found a chat system, but its way to complicated for me to understand how network works.

6

To be honest, if you struggle on simple chat networking you should take some time - Look up for Async socket & TCP/UDP protocols.

Or stick with unitys default networking libary.