OK everyone heres the deal...this part of my project has alot of potential for the right person. someone can get the groundwork figured out for this and help me get it in place, i may end up having to post this in a jobs catagory for that person. right now what i need is this...

frmMain ( main form) has sckIncoming(0) ( winsock control for incoming )

when a message is sent to ANY user it is received by sckIncoming. heres what i need.

take whatever is sent and break it down to where the data can be put into variables as well as used..

i need variables to hold the remote users IP, the data type, the data and the username. what needs to happen is this,... user1 sends a message, user2 receives it... upon receving the message it needs to figure out #1 what type of data it is.. in this case were dealing with instant message..

datatype = IM
RemoteIP should be the other users IP so we can send messages back to the other person.
and the data should be the message

basically were creating instant messaging here, we also need to be able to have multiple IM windows open at once and figure out which one belongs to which users... so...

User1 received a message from User2 and User3. both messages should be in its own IM window and able to be sent back to the right user. SO im assuming that the username should be sent as well and we need to store the information about frmIM(0) and the index as which peron sends/received....

does this make sense to anyone?

Thanks