[Freeciv-Dev] Re: PATCH: tile markers

[Raimar Falke <hawk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Dec 16, 2001 at 02:12:45PM +0200, Teemu Kurppa wrote:
> Raimar Falke wrote:
> > 
> > On Sat, Dec 15, 2001 at 11:53:25AM +0200, Teemu Kurppa wrote:
> 
> > > - Tile markers are not saved anywhere, so they are lost, if you get
> > > temporarily disconnected. This a bit inconvenient, but I'm not sure is
> > > it the worth of trouble to bring marker information to server.
> > 
> > Use attributes. (client/attribute)
> 
> I tried to understand them. 
> Strange, but it seems that they are not used anywhere ?
> Could someone shortly describe, for what purpose they are and how should
> I use them, or where in the code to find example of their real usage. 

They are created by me for the (partly programmed but not included)
agents. Search for TEST_ATTRIBUTES for a short example. Ask if you
have any questions. Attributes can be used for markers. The remaining
question is how to implement shared markers. Since the server doesn't
have to know about them I would propose a function which allows a
client to send a piece of data (uninterpreted by the server) to
another client.

        Raimar

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