Re: Network game

[Henk Jonas <MetaView@xxxxxx>]

Hi Jens,

Jens Granseuer wrote:

> Henk, if you've got ideas on how to properly do this without threads
> I'm all ears.

Well, what could we do:

1. Let the game in the normal event loop but have a flag telling that we 
are waiting for the network player to send us data and only allow things 
like map scrolling. But this would also need to have kind of timer 
events which allow us to poll on a regular base for network data. Also 
it probably doesn't fit in the current program flow? Plus, we would need 
to disable a lot of things, as the player which waits isn't allow to 
change stuff on the map during wait.

2. (what I would prefer) Poll in regular intervall for Network data and 
for events and only process scroll events and redraw the map window in 
the background and then redraw the network window (with the abort 
button) in front of it. This could be a loop in Game::StartTurn. You use 
already a function to poll for network data in Network:Read. Just call 
it inside the loop, check for events and then sleep for 100 ms or such. 
When scroll events occur scroll the map window in the background, when 
network data arrives, break and process it. You might open the 
network-abort window very small in the upper left corner, would make it 
easier to study the map during the wait.

This should work in every port, at least it even works with Palm OS, 
which has a very basic API :-)


Regards
Henk

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