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[acejack]

Local IP DLL
What does it do?
Very simple, this DLL gets the local IP address of the computer your using. This is an alternative way from the in-built game maker function mplay_ipaddress(); which is very slow. This DLL allows you to get the local IP address in 0.03 seconds.

Where do i get it?
There are two links below to get it! Game Maker 7/8 source included:
Download localip_rar.rar
Download localip_zip.zip

Hope this Helps

[halo shg]

I don't see how the built in function is slow. I just did a benchmark, and mplay_ipadress(); appears to be returning in 1.3233 ms average over 10000 iterations. Remember 0.03 is still 30 ms and including all the overhead, I'm confused as to why you would need this. I'm just trying to find a use for this DLL over the built in functions.

Edited by halo shg, 18 May 2010 - 09:56 PM.

[Hockeyflyers]

Why do you need to get the ip address a fraction of a second faster anyway?

[acejack]

it makes a big difference to me, the mplay function takes 1-5 seconds. this is the same speed evey time.

Why do you need to get the ip address a fraction of a second faster anyway?

[Tha_14]

Very good and finds the ip address faster than the gm function.
Thanks man,my game is faster on online now.

[Spreeadhaz]

this dont work on my PC, when i open the 'Local Ip Speed Test.exe'
it shows me this:

ERROR in
action number 1
of Create Event
for object obj_localip:

Error defining an external function.

I didn't modify anything, and it show me this error

[orange451]

Very good and finds the ip address faster than the gm function.
Thanks man,my game is faster on online now.

If your online game was using 39dll, you could have acquired the ip through one of their functions, just as fast

[Drara]

Hi,

your dll is amazing. Fast and does what it is meant to. In addition it returns the local self-ip (127.0.0.1) if there's no connection what is very useful for checking whether a computer is connected to the internet or not.

Hope you do not mind me having made an Extension out of this DLL. It was mostly for personal purpose because I didn't want to add one extra file just for this purpose.

If you'd like, I'd post it here for others as well.