BorlandTalk.com Borland discussion newsgroups   Archives   FAQ   Search   Memberlist   Usergroups   Register   Profile   Log in to check your private messages   Log in  time out when net problem          BorlandTalk.com Forum Index -> comp.lang.pascal.delphi.misc View previous topic :: View next topic   Author Message Pablo Guest Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2004 9:56 pm    Post subject: time out when net problem Hi, I have a program that uses an idSNTP client to get the current time, but sometimes the unternet connection goes down and the program cant get the time and halts. How can my program stop the sntp client to restore the program control with a personal error message? thanks. Back to top Maarten Wiltink Guest Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2004 10:45 am    Post subject: Re: time out when net problem "Pablo" <portiz (AT) hal (DOT) famaf.unc.edu.ar> wrote Quote: Hi, I have a program that uses an idSNTP client to get the current time, but sometimes the unternet connection goes down and the program cant get the time and halts. How can my program stop the sntp client to restore the program control with a personal error message? thanks. What exactly do you mean by "restore the program control"? Closing another Windows application is a well-known and solved problem; feeding the right words into Google will give you the solution. Technically, SNTP defines a one-shot operation: to ask for a timestamp. Reacting to it, adjusting the local system's time, need not even be within the purview of the client component. The program using the component may be the source of the undesired behaviour of "halting" (another case of "what exactly do you mean by that?"). Groetjes, Maarten Wiltink Back to top Pablo Guest Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2004 7:44 pm    Post subject: Re: time out when net problem "Maarten Wiltink" <maarten (AT) kittensandcats (DOT) net> wrote Quote: "Pablo" <portiz (AT) hal (DOT) famaf.unc.edu.ar> wrote in message news:164aea8d.0401231356.226a33f3 (AT) posting (DOT) google.com... Hi, I have a program that uses an idSNTP client to get the current time, but sometimes the unternet connection goes down and the program cant get the time and halts. How can my program stop the sntp client to restore the program control with a personal error message? thanks. What exactly do you mean by "restore the program control"? If I run my program in a PC without an Internet connection, the program halts and I cant do anything with ut but to press Ctrl+Alt+Del and close it; I mean, no button responds, I cant close it with the X button, it does nothing, it stops working. So I want to be able to set the program to stop any attempt to connect after some time and to tell what happend or to go on like nothing happend. I hope you can help me. Thanks. Quote: Closing another Windows application is a well-known and solved problem; feeding the right words into Google will give you the solution. Technically, SNTP defines a one-shot operation: to ask for a timestamp. Reacting to it, adjusting the local system's time, need not even be within the purview of the client component. The program using the component may be the source of the undesired behaviour of "halting" (another case of "what exactly do you mean by that?"). Groetjes, Maarten Wiltink Back to top Maarten Wiltink Guest Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2004 1:57 pm    Post subject: Re: time out when net problem "Pablo" <portiz (AT) hal (DOT) famaf.unc.edu.ar> wrote Quote: "Maarten Wiltink" <maarten (AT) kittensandcats (DOT) net> wrote "Pablo" <portiz (AT) hal (DOT) famaf.unc.edu.ar> wrote in message news:164aea8d.0401231356.226a33f3 (AT) posting (DOT) google.com... Hi, I have a program that uses an idSNTP client to get the current time, but sometimes the unternet connection goes down and the program cant get the time and halts. How can my program stop the sntp client to restore the program control with a personal error message? thanks. What exactly do you mean by "restore the program control"? If I run my program in a PC without an Internet connection, the program halts and I cant do anything with ut but to press Ctrl+Alt+Del and close it; I mean, no button responds, I cant close it with the X button, it does nothing, it stops working. So I want to be able to set the program to stop any attempt to connect after some time and to tell what happend or to go on like nothing happend. I hope you can help me. There is no connection. SNTP is a UDP protocol. What the program appears to do is send a request and wait for the response. When the response doesn't come, it keeps waiting. And waiting. And doing nothing else but waiting. There is no way out of that except to get a better program. It looks like this one was written by somebody who didn't understand NTP, SNTP, UDP, or even Windows at all. What Windows are you using? I guess Windows 95/98/98SE/ME; that rules out the superior option of running the full NTP daemon. The NTP website (www.ntp.org) lists many SNTP client programs. Or used to; on a quick check I can't find such a list. I've used SocketWatch in the past (not free). 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