Message polling
Understand how to handle messages with message polling.
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After you initialize the Vivox SDK, but before you sign in a user, the game must begin polling for messages. Typically, the game either polls directly in the game render loop or polls based on a timer mechanism. The recommended polling frequency is 10 times per second, where at each poll interval, is called until there are no more messages to process.
vx_get_message()The following code displays an example of how to poll for Vivox messages:
#include "Vxc.h"#include "VxcErrors.h". . .// this is your timer handler or your render loopvx_message_base_t *m;for(;;){ int status = vx_get_message(&m); if(status == VX_GET_MESSAGE_AVAILABLE) { MyGamesMessageHandler(m); // Sample implementation below vx_destroy_message(m); // destroy the message } else if(status == VX_GET_MESSAGE_FAILURE) { // handle errors here. The only error that you might see here // is because vx_initialize3() has not been called. } else if(status == VX_GET_MESSAGE_NO_MESSAGE) { break; }}