[Freeciv-Dev] Re: More imporved game starting [patch]

[Christian Knoke <ChrisK@xxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Dec 25, 2001 at 08:17:31PM +0100, Andreas Kemnade wrote:
> Jason Short writes:
>  > Daniel L Speyer wrote:
>  > 
>  > > Here is an improved version of Andreas's patch from back in October to
>  > > control the server from the client.  This version supports multiple
>  > > simultaneous games by checking which ports are available.
>  > 
>  > 
>  > At first, I thought that would be a good idea - but then I noticed the 
>  > "start game" and "end game" buttons on the server window.  If this is 
>  > expanded to include fuller (possibly even "full") control through the 
>  > GUI, that'd be much better.
> Ok, lets have a list of server commands in common code (not in
> gui-gtk) and let the client display a button for each (important) command
> (implemented like the local options dialog).
> 
> We could also parse the output of the show command and use it to
> create a server options dialog. 

I don't recommend parsing of server output because of 
translations.

> 
> If the chatline input starts with '/' and the client has started the
> server, the command can be sent through the pipe. Then the commandline
> from the server window can be removed. 
> But the output from the server should be shown somewhere in the server.

I'd say, everything in one window. You may use color or bold print.

> 
>  > 
>  > BTW: what does "end game" do?  It seems to just immediately terminate 
>  > the server.  This is not very user-friendly.
> It just sends "quit\n" to the server (through the pipe). 
>  > 
>  > Here's another idea: when you load a game, it should first load the game 
>  > to the server and then popup a list of choices for the player name. 
>  > This would be far superior IMO.  Unfortunately, this might be very hard 
>  > to implement.
> I don't think it is so difficult.
> Just parse the output from the list command:
>  - go to the line after the "------------------".
>  - extract until the first whitespace 
>  - go to the next line

see above

>  > 
>  > A word of advice: submit it to the bug tracking system.  I'll try to 
> The patch is basically from PR#977.
> I'll try to implement the dialog in the gui-win32 client the next
> days.
> 
> Greetings
> Andreas Kemnade

Christian

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