Hi all, I love game programing and am really getting into direct X. I''m not yet at the DirectPlay phase but I have a quesion about sending things through a network. Say I have a chat like program 1 client and 1 server, the server sends a command a the client does what the command asks eg. "open notepad". With out using DirectPlay is it difficult to do this?? does anyone know a good artile on this kinda stuff??? Thanx

I think DirectPlay is more difficult to use than winsockets, which the popular alternative.

Using DP gives you bonus functionality useful for games. Like creating sessions & groups, etc useful for WarCraft-like games and others...

Either way, to do that you''d have to define a special ''execute this program'' msg that sends a string, and have the client shell & execute it... not a good idea i might add.