A friend of mine and me are trying to get an IRC client together (it will be a special one just for our IRC network).

For some reason...I can't get it to do much:

#include <cstdlib>
#include <iostream>
#include <winsock.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include "socketclass.h"


using std::string;
void get_buffer( void );
	cSocket SocketClass;
	string msg;
	string nick;
	char str[100];
	int x = 0;




using namespace std;

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{



	
	if(  SocketClass.Connect( "irc.gameswitch.net", 6667) )
	{
		cout << "Socket Connected \n";
		CreateThread(NULL, 0, (LPTHREAD_START_ROUTINE)get_buffer, 0, 0, 0); 
		cout << "waiting for threads to join" << endl;
		
		nick = "irc.gameswitch.net USER \"bob.com\" \"irc.gameswitch.net\" :bob";
		strcpy(str, nick.c_str()); 
		SocketClass.Send(str);
		nick = "irc.gameswitch.net NICK superbob";
		strcpy(str, nick.c_str()); 
		SocketClass.Send(str);
		 nick = "NICK superbob";
		 strcpy(str, nick.c_str()); 
		SocketClass.Send(str);
		nick = "USER \"bob.com\" \"irc.gameswitch.net\" :bob";
		strcpy(str, nick.c_str()); 
		SocketClass.Send(str);
			
		while(1)
		{
			

										  
			 Sleep(500);
   

					
						
																				   
			
		}
	  //done?
	}
}


void get_buffer( void )
{
	  char stringsend[100];   
	  char buffer[2048];
	  
	  int buffersize;
	  int msglen = 0;
while(1)
{
	  buffersize = SocketClass.Receive( buffer );

			if(buffersize <= 0)
				   cout << "wth";   
				 
			for(int i = 0; i<buffersize; i++) 
			{
			   msg += buffer[i];
			   
			   if( buffer[i] == 10 )
			   {
				   cout << msg;
				   msglen = 0;
				   msg = "";
			   }
			   
			   if( buffer[i] == 58 )
			   {
				   cout << msg;
			   }
			   
			   if( buffer[i] == 80 )
			   {
				   cout << "Possible Ping";

			   msglen++;			   
			   }

			 }
}
}

So what are we suppose to do about that?

lol...

What this program is supposed to do is connect to an IRC server.

Right now, it prints everything that is sent/received on the socket that connects to the IRC. My problem is that I can't get it to do anything other than have the the IRC server acknowledge that I am connected.

I try to identify myself but I get no answer.

What I receive from the server is printed like this:
NOTICE AUTH: ***Looking up your hostname
NOTICE AUTH: ***Found your hostname
NOTICE AUTH: ***Checking Ident

After this, normally I would be sent a PING :<number> that I would have to send back as PONG :<number>. Unfortunately, either theres an error with my program or it has a problem with me.

I would be very happy if you could help!