IDirectPlay8LobbyClient::Send Method

Sends a message to a lobbied application that was launched by this lobby client or was connected by this lobby client.

This method sends a DPL_MSGID_RECEIVE system message to the target's message handler.

Syntax

HRESULT Send(      

    const DPNHANDLE hConnection,
    BYTE *const pBuffer,
    const DWORD pBufferSize,
    const DWORD dwFlags
);

Parameters

hConnection

[in] Variable of type DPNHANDLE that specifies the target for the message transmission. You may also specify the following flag.

DPLHANDLE_ALLCONNECTIONS

The message you have specified will be sent to all lobbied applications that are connected to your lobby client application.

pBuffer

[in] Pointer to an array of bytes that contains the message.

pBufferSize

[in] Variable of type DWORD that specifies the size of the message buffer in the pBuffer parameter, in bytes. This parameter must be at least 1 byte and no more than 64 KB.

dwFlags

[in] Reserved. Must be 0.

Return Value

Returns S_OK if successful, or one of the following error values.

DPNERR_INVALIDFLAGS	The flags passed to this method are invalid.
DPNERR_INVALIDHANDLE	The handle specified is invalid.
DPNERR_INVALIDPARAM	One or more of the parameters passed to the method are invalid.
DPNERR_SENDTOOLARGE	The buffer was too large.

Remarks

If the buffer size is larger than 64 KB, the method returns DPNERR_SENDTOOLARGE. If the buffer size is set to 0, the method returns DPNERR_INVALIDPARAM.