| # ITK Programmer's Guide
Table of contents | Intro | General | TCP Low Level | TCP High Level | UDP | DNS | PPP Encoding/Decoding | Internet Config | Goodies | Cryptography & SSL | Appendix
Chapter 2 : General ITK Routines
Chapter contents: |
ITK_Init ITK_TCPInfos ITK_TCPGetStrm ITK_TCPGlobInfo |
About this chapter... | This chapter describes general ITK routines like ITK_Init which is used to provide ITK its licence number so that it will not run in demo mode. ITK_TCPInfos provides general information about the TCP/IP layer available on the machine where ITK is used. Two new routines have been added in ITKv2 to provide global information about the currently used streams (ITK_TCPGetStrm) and the TCP/IP layers (ITK_TCPGlobInfo).

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ITK_Init
Syntax: | result := ITK_Init(licence1;licence2)
Description: | Initialises ITK by giving ITK it's license number. If the license number is incorrect, ITK will run automatically in demo mode.
Warning: | If both license numbers are empty or invalid, ITK will run in demo mode and beep three times. Just call this routine once in your application prior to any other call to ITK , otherwise the "demo dialog" will show up (the best place to do this is the "Startup" procedure or the "On Startup" method of 4Dv6). If you are using ITK in 4D Server's stored procedures, you will have to call ITK_Init at the beginning of those procedures, otherwise the "demo dialog" will show up on 4D Server.
Note: | In ITKv1.1 ot ITKv2.0, the secondary license number can be used in multiplatform applications. In that case, you can pass both Mac and Windows license numbers in one ITK_Init call. In ITKv2.5, the secondary license number is used to pass the SSL server license number. For SSL servers, you must pass both license numbers: the ITK Pro license number as the first parameter, and the SSL server license number in the second parameter. Here is the format of ITK license numbers since ITKv1.0: v1.x = 4 letters + numbers v2.0 = 5 letters + numbers v2.5 = 4 letters + numbers + 1 letter
Params: |
In/Out | Parameter | Type |  | Example or note
-> | licence1 | String | First licence number | For ITKv2.5, pass your ITK "Light" or ITK "Pro" license number (starting by ITKL or ITKP).
-> | licence2 | String | Second licence number (for multiplatform applications) | For ITKv2.5, pass you optional SSL server license number (starting by ITKS or ITKX).
<- | result | Longint | TCP init error code | 0 = no error while initializing TCP layers
Example: |
    $err := ITK_Init("ITK...";"ITK...")
    If ($err <0)
      ALERT("Your TCP/IP layers couldn't be initialised !")
    End If

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ITK_TCPInfos
Syntax: | result := ITK_TCPInfos (localIP; version1; version2; ITKversion)
Description: | Returns global information about the TCP/IP layers.
Params: |
In/Out | Parameter | Type |  | Example or note
<- | localIP | Longint | local IP address | On multihomed systems, the primary (or default) local IP address is returned.
<- | version1 | Longint | version of TCP/IP layers | 1 = MacTCP 1.1 2 = MacTCP 1.1.1 3 = MacTCP 2.0.x 4 = TCP/IP (OpenTransport) 5 = Winsock
<- | version2 | Longint | OpenTransport's version number | Under OpenTransport, returns OpenTransport's version code. OpenTransport version codes are values returned by Gestalt selector 'otvr' with Apple's standard version format. $MMmrssbb (in hexadecimal) where: MM = major version number m = minor version number r = release version number ss = stage code ($20 = dev, $40 = alpha, $60 = beta, $80 = Final) bb = build number For example, OpenTransport 1.1 returns 17858560 decimal, which is $01108000 in hexadecimal so this is version 1.1F.
<- | ITKversion | Longint | ITK's version number | Same format as Apple's standard version format (see above).
<- | result | Longint | error code (negative values). |
Example: |
    $err := ITK_TCPInfos(locAddr;TCPvers;OTvers)
    if (TCPvers=5) ` we're under Windows
      foldSep := "\"
    else
      foldSep := ":"
    end if

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ITK_TCPGetStrm
Syntax: | result := ITK_TCPGetStrm (index)
Description: | This routine allows to retrieve the list of all current TCP streams allocated by ITK.
Params: |
In/Out | Parameter | Type |  | Example or note
-> | index | Longint | Index value | Pass 0 to get the current number of streams. Pass 1..n to get the Nth stream.
<- | result | Longint | StreamRef (if index > 0) number of streams (if index=0) 0 (index out of range) | If index > 0 returns the StreamRef. If index = 0 returns the amount of allocated streams If the returned value is 0 the index is out of range.
Example: |
    $nbStrm := ITK_TCPGetStrm(0) ` get the number of allocated streams
    For ($i;1;$nbStrm)
      $status := ITK_TCPStatus(ITK_TCPGetStrm($i))
    End For

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ITK_TCPGlobInfo
Syntax: | result := ITK_TCPGlobInfo (infoSelector)
Description: | Returns global information about the TCP layers.
Params: |
In/Out | Parameter | Type |  | Example or note
-> | infoSelector | Longint | global info selector | Global info selectors: 1 = round trip average * 2 = minimum round trip time * 3 = maximum round trip time * 4 = maximum TCP segment size * 5 = maximum TCP connections 6 = number of connection attempts 7 = number of connections opened 8 = number of connections accepted 9 = number of closed connections 10 = number of aborted connections 11 = bytes received** 12 = bytes sent** 13 = duplicate bytes received * 14 = retransmitted bytes * 15 = number of packets received * 16 = number of packets sent * 17 = number of duplicate packets received * 18 = number of packets retransmitted * * this information is only available under MacTCP. ** With SSL streams, the number of "raw" bytes transmitted is used.
<- | result | Longint | returned value |
Example: |
    maxTCPstrm := ITK_TCPGlobInfo(5) ` max. number of streams

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CQ/22-Feb-2001