TCP/IP: Shoutbox Client (tcpip_shoutbox_client)

Make sure that you have the server application already created.

Add the TcpIp_Connect filter and configure its inPort input.

Create a task macrofilter, name it "SendingLoop" and place one instance of it in the Main macrofilter.

Drag the output outSocket over the SendingLoop instance to create a new input. Change the input type from "SocketId?" to "SocketId", so that the entire macrofilter is not executed if the connection is not successful.

Add the TcpIp_WriteText filter inside the SendingLoop macrofilter.

Connect inSocket with the input of the macrofilter.

Create an HMI with one TextBox and two ImpulseButton controls. Name the buttons "Send" and "Exit" in the Properties window.

Go back to the Program Editor and create the MakeConditional filter of type String above TcpIp_WriteText.

Connect the inObject input to the output of the TextBox control and the inCondition input to the output of the "Send" button.

Connect the output outConditionalObject to the inText input, so that the latter filter is executed only when the button is pressed.

To create a loop that breaks when the "Exit" button is pressed, add the Not and the Loop filters, and connect them together as well as with the "Exit" button.

Add the DelayByPeriod filter to suspend the program workflow for inTime milliseconds relative to the end of the filter's last invoke time.

Go back to the Main macrofilter and add the TcpIp_Close filter to close the connection on exit.