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Name

### serverEvent()

Examples

    // Example by Tom Igoe
    // Creates a server that prints new client's IP addresses.

    import processing.net.*;

    int port = 10002;
    Server myServer;

    void setup()
    {
      size(400, 400);
      background(0);
      myServer = new Server(this, port); // Starts a server on port 10002
    }

    void draw() {
      // Nothing happens here, everything happens inside ServerEvent()
    }

    // ServerEvent message is generated when a new client connects
    // to an existing server.
    void serverEvent(Server someServer, Client someClient) {
      println("We have a new client: " + someClient.ip());
    }

Description | The code inside serverEvent() is run when a new client connects to a server that has been created within the program.

Syntax

    void serverEvent(server, client) {
      statements
    }

Parameters

server | Server: server the client is connecting to
client | Client: client connecting to the server
statements | any valid statements

Usage | Application
Related | Server

Updated on June 14, 2010 12:05:29pm EDT