Posted: 05 Dec 2011 08:58:37 pm Post subject: Small Request for Star Trek
For anyone familiar with gCn and the DCS GUI, can someone code up a small routine for me. I need to process incoming transmissions, then create a GUI window that displays all active server numbers, then allows me to enter the number of an active server into a 1-byte spinner or to click a "Create New Server" button.
I could probably do this myself at some point, but I ask for help on it so that I can expedite the release of the game. If someone wants to help, the only thing you need to know is that, in incoming frames, (Cn2_Int_RecBuf) contains the server number of the sender. _________________ -ACagliano
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Posted: 06 Dec 2011 01:09:06 pm Post subject:
If you've seen Sandpaper, would the way its Connect screen works be the sort of thing you'd want? If so, let me know, and I would be happy to share the code for that. _________________
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Posted: 06 Dec 2011 03:44:52 pm Post subject:
ACagliano wrote:
It looks like it could work, Kerm. How does it handle multiple pending connection requests?
It doesn't. Basically, each calculator that is not connected to anything sends out a periodic broadcast containing its username. When the user opens the Connect dialog on some calculator, it stops broadcasting and instead starts collecting broadcasts. It keeps a list of the calculators it knows, each element of which is 13 bytes (5 bytes for the address, 8 bytes for the name, or 9 if you want to be lazy and include the zero terminator in the list). The user can flip backwards and forwards through the list with those two arrows, and if new broadcasts arrive, the user will be able to flip further. You can only send a connect request to a calculator still broadcasting its presence, otherwise the calculator will just ignore the message (if you try to connect to a calculator already connected to someone else, for insta.ce _________________
That sounds like it could work. I would need to modify it slightly tho. I don't need usernames displayed, just Server numbers (@Cn2_Int_RecBuf). I would need a list of all servers that are sending presence packets, and each server number would only need listing once. And, I'd need the highest received active server number returned into a register.
I'm assuming this would be easier than your sandpaper connect, right? _________________ -ACagliano
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