Managing a Peer-to-Peer Session

Microsoft DirectX 8.1 (Visual Basic)

Managing a Peer-to-Peer Session

The session host is responsible for managing the session, including:

Managing the list of session members and their network addresses
Deciding whether a new user is allowed to join the session.
Notifying all members when a new user joins the session, and passing them the new user's address.
Providing new users with the current game state
Notifying all users when a user leaves the session

When players attempt to join a session, Microsoft® DirectPlay® will call the host's DirectPlay8Event.IndicateConnect method. To accept the player into the session set fRejectMsg to False. Setting fRejectMsg to any other value rejects the request. In either case, DirectPlay calls the player's DirectPlay8Event.ConnectComplete method with the response to the request.

The host can remove a player from the session by calling DirectPlay8Peer.DestroyPeer. Other members of the session cannot call this method successfully. If you want to allow players to request that another player be removed from the session, you must send the request to the host, and have the host handle the request.